ABSTRACT
In this chapter we shall consider, firstly, from an ethnomethodological perspective, the relation between identifications of crime and members' methods of membership categorization. Secondly, we shall review ethnomethodological studies of the use, by the police, of social knowledge and interpretive procedures in accomplishing the variety of tasks constituting the work of policing: Pollner on identifying crime, Sacks on identifying suspects, Bittner on making arrests in the context of peace-keeping and Watson on police interrogations.
