Outputs (2)

‘Are We Sure That He Knew That You Don’t Want to Have Sex?’: Discursive Constructions of the Suspect in Police Interviews with Rape Complainants (2024)
Journal Article
Hermolle, M., Kent, A., Locke, A. J., & Andrews, S. J. (2024). ‘Are We Sure That He Knew That You Don’t Want to Have Sex?’: Discursive Constructions of the Suspect in Police Interviews with Rape Complainants. Behavioral Sciences, 14(9), https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14090837

Recent statistics reveal alarming flaws in the Criminal Justice System’s (CJS) handling of rape cases, undermining the pursuit of justice for complainants seeking legal redress. This paper takes a novel approach to explore police rape stereotype use... Read More about ‘Are We Sure That He Knew That You Don’t Want to Have Sex?’: Discursive Constructions of the Suspect in Police Interviews with Rape Complainants.

Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls (2024)
Journal Article
Kent, A., & Kevoe-Feldman, H. (2024). Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(2), 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2024.2340407

We examine occasions when callers phone emergency services yet preface their reason for calling as ‘not an emergency’. Data are phone calls to US (911) and UK (999) emergency lines and UK (101) non-emergency police lines. Data has been transcribed us... Read More about Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls.