Friday, October 05, 2007

When murder is not enough: Toward a new definition of community violence
Aggression and Violent Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2007, Pages 598-610. Theme: Crime Classification and Offender Typologies
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Melanie-Angela Neuilly
"This article presents a procedural analysis of the classification of violent deaths based on systematic observations conducted in a medical examiner's office in an urban area. The ethnographic data show the many different procedural stages leading to death classification. They also uncover the complex web of informal rules, individual influences, institutional limitations, etc., making the classification system based more on “degrees of certainty” rather than a “true/false” statement."
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