When death is not a crime: Challenges for police and policing

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Carpenter, Belinda, Tait, Gordon, Quadrelli, Carol A. and Thompson, Ian. 2014. "When death is not a crime: Challenges for police and policing." Papers from the British Criminology Conference: An Online Journal by the British Society of Criminology. 14 (1-2), pp. 3-16.

Article Title	When death is not a crime: Challenges for police and policing
Article Category	Article
Authors	Carpenter, Belinda (Author), Tait, Gordon (Author), Quadrelli, Carol A. (Author) and Thompson, Ian (Author)
Editors	Millie, Andrew
Journal Title	Papers from the British Criminology Conference: An Online Journal by the British Society of Criminology
Journal Citation	14 (1-2), pp. 3-16
Number of Pages	14
Year	2014
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Web Address (URL)	https://www.britsoccrim.org/volume-14/
Abstract	The over-representation of vulnerable populations within the criminal justice system, and the role of police in perpetuating this, has long been a topic of discussion in criminology. What is less discussed is the way in which non -criminal investigations by police, in areas like a death investigation, may perpetuate similar types of engagement with vulnerable populations. In Australia, as elsewhere, it is the police who are responsible for investigating both suspicious and violent deaths like homicide as well as non - suspicious, violent deaths like accidents and suicides. Police are also the agents tasked with investigating deaths which are neither violent nor suspicious but occur outside hospitals and other care facilities. This paper reports on how the police describe - or are described by others - their role in a non - suspicious death investigation, and the challenges that such investigations raise for police and policing.
Keywords	coroner, death investigation, police
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	480599. Legal systems not elsewhere classified
	480399. International and comparative law not elsewhere classified
Public Notes	File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author.
Byline Affiliations	Queensland University of Technology
	Queensland Police Service, Australia
Event	British Criminology Conference (2014)
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland
ISBN	1759-0043
Funding source	Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant ID http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100200393
Event Details	British Criminology Conference (2014) Event Date 09 to end of 12 Jul 2014 Event Location Liverpool, United Kingdom

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