TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mercader,Patricia
AU  -  Houel,Annik
AU  -  Sobota,Helga
TI  - The Criminal Investigation of a So-Called Crime of Passion as a Narrative Construction
PY  - 2006///.
							
N1  - 42
N2  - The criminal investigation of a so-called crime of passion as a narrative construction The dossier prepared for a criminal prosecution is, to say the least, second-hand information. It gathers together at a distance the defendants’and the witnesses’words, subjecting them to the constraints of a rigorous system with its own priorities. The contradiction thus created is perhaps insurmountable : the Code of Criminal Procedure specifies that the investigation has as its goal the positivist notion of « the revelation of the truth ». However, one may well consider that, on the contrary, what is constructed in this process should be analyzed as a fiction with several authors (the police, the prosecution, psychiatric medicine, and the individual subjects who represent them), as a necessarily legendary biography of absent subjects. Nevertheless, this legend tells a truth, or some truths, of enormous interest to the social psychologist and the clinician
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-connexions-2006-2-page-149?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -