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<p>Against the backdrop of a strengthening of security concerns in the context of contemporary penalties (Feeley and Simon 1992; Garland 2001), this article takes as its subject the administrative investigation report written following a recent tragic incident in French-speaking Switzerland (“the Payerne drama”). It aims to analyse the discursive functioning of this document and the performative effects that the scripting of the production of security, organised therein, has on socio-judicial supervision practices.</p>
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Against the backdrop of a strengthening of security concerns in the context of contemporary penalties (Feeley and Simon 1992; Garland 2001), this article takes as its subject the administrative investigation report written following a recent tragic incident in French-speaking Switzerland (“the Payerne drama”). It aims to analyse the discursive functioning of this document and the performative effects that the scripting of the production of security, organised therein, has on socio-judicial supervision practices.

Socio-Judicial Intervention at the Risk of the Incident: Autopsy of an Administrative Investigation Report

Haute école de travail social et de la santé Lausanne (HETSL HES-SO)

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Against the backdrop of a strengthening of security concerns in the context of contemporary penalties (Feeley and Simon 1992; Garland 2001), this article takes...

Socio-Judicial Intervention at the Risk of the Incident: Autopsy of an Administrative Investigation Report

Published Online: Jul 12, 2022

Page range: 377 - 394

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0019

Keywords
Criminal risk, administrative investigation, discourse analysis, performative effects

© 2022 Daniel Lambelet et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Socio-Judicial Intervention at the Risk of the Incident: Autopsy of an Administrative Investigation Report

Published Online: Jul 12, 2022

Page range: 377 - 394

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0019

KeywordsCriminal risk, administrative investigation, discourse analysis, performative effects

© 2022 Daniel Lambelet et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Criminal risk, administrative investigation, discourse analysis, performative effects