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Deaths After Police Contact

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A number of complex factors affected the discursive relationship between the IPCC and coronial system as the method of accountability construction evolved during the period 2004–15. This chapter assesses the organisations as two systems of accountability production in terms of discourse and discursive practices. It considers the discourses of both systems and how they relate to each other, and to wider discourses that suffuse public, policing and governmental worlds. These relationships are critically evaluated in order to assess how they influence accountability construction in cases of DAPC. The production of findings in these cases is partly driven by the requirements of audiences, and consequently consideration is given to the nature of audiences that ‘consume’ the findings which have been produced. As such, discourse represents a cyclical process of production and consumption, and this relationship is also considered.

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Baker, D. (2016). Discursive Practices and Systems. In: Deaths After Police Contact. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58967-5_6

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