Abstract
This book began with an end, with the death of Sean Rigg. It looked back at how he came to meet his death. It considered the accountability that was constructed in the aftermath of his death, and how this evolved through time, and different iterations of accountability construction. The book has followed the pattern of death investigations in cases of DAPC, retrospectively analysed events that led to such deaths and evaluated the systems and processes used to construct accountability. As the book reaches its conclusion it reconsiders the key findings identified from this retrospective research process and uses them as a way to look forward in an attempt to ascertain how accountability construction might continue to evolve in cases of DAPC.
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Note, for example, officer William Rankin in Virginia, on trial for first-degree murder for the death of William Chapman, an unarmed 18 year old in April 2015 (Swain 2015). Similarly, in Chicago in November 2015, officer Jason Van Dyke was indicted on charges of the first-degree murder of 17 year old Laquan McDonald (Davey and Smith 2015).
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Baker, D. (2016). Conclusion. In: Deaths After Police Contact. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58967-5_8
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