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dc.contributor.authorWilson-Kovacs, Dana
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-23T09:53:33Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractDespite a sustained preoccupation with crime scene investigation in policing and instructional literatures, government reviews and media accounts, the crime scene examiner has received scant sociological attention. Focusing on scientific support personnel in an English police force, this article analyses how embedded actors who routinely facilitate the provision of crime scene examination reflect on their role and position in the investigative process. The analysis draws on data collected in a small number of semi-structured interviews with stakeholders at different levels of seniority, in order to map an understanding of the inter and intra-professional interactions, exchanges, dependencies and negotiations employed by those working at the coalface of investigative practice. Hoping to illuminate some of the sense-making practices behind the enactment of forensic activities, the discussion examines the articulation of professional identities and the conclusion reflects more broadly on the processes of professionalisation and discourses of professionalism that accompany standardised forensic accomplishments.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 48, Issue 4, pp. 763 - 779en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/16570
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSageen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://soc.sagepub.com/en_GB
dc.subjectcrime scene examinationen_GB
dc.subjectDNAen_GB
dc.subjectforensic supporten_GB
dc.subjectpoliceen_GB
dc.subjectprofessionen_GB
dc.subjectprofessionalismen_GB
dc.subjectvolume crime managementen_GB
dc.title'Backroom Boys’: Occupational Dynamics in Crime Scene Examinationen_GB
dc.date.available2015-03-23T09:53:33Z
dc.identifier.issn0038-0385
dc.descriptionpublication-status: Publisheden_GB
dc.descriptiontypes: Articleen_GB
dc.identifier.journalSociologyen_GB


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