Administrative / Constitutional Law

Courtroom Ethnography: Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges

Edited by Lisa Flower · Sarah Klosterkamp
Palgrave Macmillan November 2023

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ISBN-13
9783031379840
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication
November 2023
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of courtroom ethnography. This collection gathers international researchers from a multitude of disciplines to explore three central themes: doing courtroom ethnography, ethnographic studies of the courtroom, and contemporary and critical aspects of courtroom ethnography. It highlights the nuances, negotiations, and issues that ethnographic researchers face in the courtroom. It covers topics like how to study legal actors and lay participants, legal and social processes, norms and rulings, digitalisation and vulnerability, gender and inequalities, and more across a range of legal cases. It presents the current state of the art of the field of courthouse ethnography with a discussion of methodological challenges, modes of access and best practice examples. With practical tips/questions at the end of each chapter, it speaks to students and above in subjects including sociology, criminology, law, geography, sociology of law, conflict studies, socio-legal studies and beyond.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Courtroom Ethnography by Sarah Klosterkamp & Lisa Flower

Section 1: Teaching and Doing Courtroom Ethnography
2. Negotiating Access by Sara Uhnoo, Moa Bladini & Asa Wettergren
3. Framing the View by Jessica Hambly
4. Positionality and Research Ethics by Sarah Klosterkamp & Tasniem Anwar
5. Challenging the Authority of Sight by Alex Jeffrey
6. Studying Court Hearings Trans-Sequentially by Thomas Scheffer
7. Teaching Courthouse Ethnography by Axel Pohn-Weidinger

Section 2: Contemporary and Critical Aspects of Courtroom Ethnography
8. Video Links and Eyework by Lisa Flower, Sarah Klosterkamp & Emma Rowden
9. Hate Crime and Reverse Engineering the Law by Kerstin Bree Carlson
10. Towards Child-Friendly Asylum Justice by Sara Lembrechts
11. Moral Communication in Court by Louise Victoria Johansen & Julie Laursen
12. Courts as a Site of Redescrimination by Samantha Morgan-Williams & Fiona Donson
13. Courtroom Observations in Contexts of Exceptionality by Jeanne Hersant & Fabiola Miranda Perez
14. Courtroom Performances of Masculinities and Victimhood by Tea Fredriksson and Anita Heber
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