Adversarial case-making : an ethnography of English Crown Court procedure

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    • Scheffer, Thomas

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Adversarial case-making : an ethnography of English Crown Court procedure

by Thomas Scheffer

(International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 116)

Brill, 2010

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index

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内容説明

Cases are not objects at hand for legal decision-making; cases are not echoes from a past crime. Cases are, first of all, made within compound discourse apparatus, here the English Crown Court and the procedure/s attached to it. This book reveals the legal production of cases including their relevant features. The socio-legal ethnography visits the natural sites of adversarial case-making: law firms, barristers' chambers, and Crown Courts. It examines the role and dynamics of client-lawyer meetings, pre-trial hearings, plea bargaining sessions, and jury trials. It focuses on the lawyers' case-making activities, their procedural contexts, and the resulting cases. As an ethnographic discourse study, the book develops a trans-sequential perspective on the interrelated events and processes of case-making - and by doing so, overcomes the shortcomings of talk-bias and text-bias. The trans-sequential approach pays out in detailed case studies on an alibi, on guilt, or the barrister's notes; it pays out as well in cross-case studies dealing with legal care, procedural infrastructure, or the case system in the common law tradition.

目次

List of Figures Foreword Introduction On field access Rendering case-making observable Outlook 1. A case of assault: The rise and fall of an alibi The ontological versions of the alibi-story and its analysability The rise of the alibi Intermezzo The story's decline Towards the duality of mobilisation 2. Framing law-in-action Where and when is the field? Event and process in Social Theory Eventful process, processed events Weighing event and process Outlook: the adversarial procedure as eventful process 3. A case of indecent assault: Fitting sleep-walking expertise in Interrogating a single case Expert evidence in criminal proceedings Sleep-walking expertise and its relevant other knowledges Discussion: Distributed knowing and judicial decision-making 4. File-work and procedural care Styles of file-work in a criminal law firm Good reasons for different styles of file-work Conclusion: Legal care in context 5. A case of wounding with intent: The barrister's day in court Before trial The barrister's work during trial The closing speech Conclusion: The minutiae of case-representation 6. Procedural resources and procedural infrastructure The court The file The story Towards procedural infrastructure 7. A case of murder: No regret! Direct and indirect moralising The moralising sites in a Crown Court case Discussion: Characteristics and rationale of indirect moralising 8. The case in the case-system The case as tripartite sign Case, fact-sensitive Case, ruled and ruling Case, decision-oriented The archive of the case-system Off the case: Components in isolation Conclusion: The micro-foundations of adversarialism Mechanisms of case-making Complexities of case-making Epilogue References Index

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