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Beyond Account: The Personal Impact of Police Shootings

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  • John Van Maanen

    (University of California, Irvine)

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The aftermath of a police shooting is a messy matter. The consequences of a shooting are felt and acted upon at several levels within police organizations. Official, col legial, and individual versions of a particular shooting often contrast in both form—external/intemal/private—and con tent—representation/symbol/feeling. Based on one's commit ment to the police role and one's social position within a department, an officer will attempt to build an account for a shooting that will protect his sense of self as shaped by the relationships he has with his colleagues and organization. Be cause shootings are to a degree "routine matters" within many police agencies, especially large ones, individual accounts are worked out in line with mutually held background under standings of what constitutes proper police conduct before, during, and after a shooting. That such accounts are only partial indicators of "what really happened" is a point well understood by the police.

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  • John Van Maanen, 1980. "Beyond Account: The Personal Impact of Police Shootings," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 452(1), pages 145-156, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:452:y:1980:i:1:p:145-156
    DOI: 10.1177/000271628045200114
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