Ann Weatherall's #ForensicCA2024 #EMCA presentation shows how instructors in feminist self-defence classes 'animate' legislation about what constitutes self-defence or (by contrast) construct extreme (illegal) cases of vengeful or disproportionate violence

Søren Sandager Sørensen presents his #ForensicCA2024 talk on 'Hva tenker du' ('what are your thoughts') in Norwegian police interviews and how this is used to solicit longer explanations - but also the pragmatic problems of such 'open' question formats with inexperienced suspects.

Kate Steel opens the third #ForensicCA2024 panel with an #EMCA study of difficult disclosure sequences in domestic abuse police call-outs highlighting how 'barriers' to disclosure are fraught with & interactionally patterned by complex and conflicting accountabilities

Lorenza Mondada presents hers and Fernanda da Cruz' #ForensicCA2024 paper on how 'the bones are made to talk' through the interactional, embodied manipulations of materials and other practices of forensic investigators from an #EMCA perspective.

Terry Au-Yeung and Robin Smith's #ForensicCA2024 presentation shows how a police PR statement after a racialised assault by police officers works to destabilise/dilute the moral accountability of the police officer actions as constructed by quote tweets of the viral video #EMCA

Our second panel of #ForensicCA2024 starts with Michael Mora-Rodruitez showing the normative orientation to compliance in police's request formats during border vehicle checks, and the escalation dynamics of high-entitlement/directive forms during trouble/non-compliance #EMCA

The first #ForensicCA2024 keynote by Emma Tennent shares analytic observations and concludes on the power of #EMCA for feminist analyses of violence, and thoughtful questions from the floor about how morality and category memberships are managed interactionally in calls to the police

Emma Tennent's #ForensicCA2024 keynote shows how ostensible 'barriers to reporting' family violence are respecified, in practice, as e.g., issues of caller identity #EMCA

@LizStokoe introduces Emma Tennent, our first keynote of #ForensicCA2024 providing an #EMCA respecification of 'barriers to reporting' family violence.

Laura Jenkins chairs a seamlessly hybrid Q&A session involving all speakers from our first fantastic #ForensicCA2024 panel of the day