Becoming suspicious : a study of police-initiated encounters with the public
This thesis develops a conceptual framework - based on the work of Erving Goffman - to understand the practical exercise of police suspicions. In so doing, it generates provisional insights about how the police decide to stop and search members of the public, and assesses the role of broader influen...
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University of Surrey
2010
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531390 |