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Lisa Flower

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer | Coordinator for Qualitative Methods Lab | Excellent teaching practitioner

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Courtroom Ethnography : Exploring contemporary approaches, fieldwork and challenges

Editor

  • Lisa Flower
  • Sarah Klosterkamp

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Document type

Book

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • courtroom ethnography
  • fieldwork

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-303137985-7
  • ISBN: 9783031379840