Courtroom Ethnography: Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges

Author: Lisa Flower; Sarah Klosterkamp
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031379840
Published In: November 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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