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- Title
L'économie de la preuve en pratique: Les catégories de l'entendement policier.
- Authors
Proteau, Laurence
- Abstract
On the basis of empirical data collected during the study of the investigative branches (underage policing, drug enforcement, criminal police) of a police precinct in a middle-sized provincial town, this article deals with a central mechanism for administering evidence and for reproducing the police as a corps: interrogation. Although they are indispensable in the framework of a police investigation, interrogation techniques are hardly taught within the police academy. They are not really specified by the code of penal procedure, and weakly defined in the doctrine. As a result, the knowledge mobilized during interrogation sessions is essentially developed by and for police practice. It is by imitating the elders that the recruits acquire and internalize such skills, as well as the know-how and the mode of thinking and being that defines the police. Mastering this practical knowledge is a distinctive professional asset to the extent that the interrogation is often the heart of the investigation. The rudimentary forms of classification and the techniques of extortion mobilized during this exercise do not only produce confessions: they also allow for the transmission of investigative knowledge, for the discovery of the "culprit," as well as for the training of heirs.
- Subjects
POLICE questioning; CRIMINAL justice system; CRIME analysis; INTERVIEWING in law enforcement -- Technique; ADMISSIONS (Law); CRIMINOLOGY
- Publication
Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 2009, Issue 178, p12
- ISSN
0335-5322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3917/arss.178.0012