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Forensic medicine has traditionally been understood as constituting a tension between medical and legal roles: a care-custody paradox. Rather than reinforcing this paradox, however, in this paper I will draw upon a study of Healthcare Professionals working within police custody suites in England in order to show the ways that they coproduce [Jasanoff, S., 2004. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order. London: Routledge] their work with the aim of simultaneously meeting the requirements of both their police (for instance PACE codes) and healthcare (for instance the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Practice) responsibilities. Focusing on acts of ‘mundane care’ [Brownlie, J. and Spandler, H., 2018. Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one’s own. Sociology of health and illness, 40 (2), 256–269], the typification of detainees and the use of detention cells as risk management tools, I will show that rather than undergoing an existential crisis, Healthcare Professionals mobilise coproduced practices in order to perform their work successfully, thereby further enabling police and detention officers to achieve their custody objectives.
Author(s): Rees G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Policing and Society
Year: 2023
Volume: 33
Issue: 1
Pages: 51-63
Print publication date: 01/01/2023
Online publication date: 28/03/2022
Acceptance date: 14/03/2022
Date deposited: 29/03/2022
ISSN (print): 1043-9463
ISSN (electronic): 1477-2728
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2022.2055020
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2022.2055020
ePrints DOI: 0
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