%0 Journal Article
%T The 'Process Structures' of Police Homicide Investigations
%J British journal of criminology
%D 2002
%A Innes, M.
%V 42
%N 4
%P 669-688
%X This paper discusses how a fairly standardized sequence of actions performed by police detectives can be understood as a form of social process and seen to be productive of an incident of homicide as a meaningful' event. The particular focus is upon how three key factors--the law as a mode of rationality; the organizational properties of the police service; and the circumstances surrounding the incident under investigation--shape the actions performed by individual officers, and in doing so constitute a process structure.<p />
%G 
%I Oxford University Press
%@ 0007-0955
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.4.669