A Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Police Reports
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
Police reports can serve as investigative aids or as pieces of evidence in court. The police officers who make these reports should write them in an accurate, clear and factual manner. Thus, investigation report writing is necessary and is a major duty of those in the criminal justice system. This qualitative content analysis examined the linguistic features and the organizational structure of 30 police reports from the different investigation sections in Davao Region, Philippines. The corpora of the study consist of thievery, shooting incident, murder, stabbing, and drug-related cases. The findings revealed that there are three linguistic features: lexical, syntactical and cohesive devices. Moreover, this legal document is composed of different moves and steps that make up the overall structure of the police reports. Thus, an accurate and clear police report is an important evidence and source of information for any future prosecution.
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Maria Vinice O. Sumaljag Phd
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