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Lisa Flower

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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Interactional Justice : The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty

Author

  • Lisa Flower

Summary, in English

By drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldnotes and interviews with lawyers, this sociological study brings their loyalty work to life and reveals to the reader the unwritten rules of emotional interactions. It presents how defence lawyers socially construct their duty of loyalty by negotiating informal and implicit professional and social expectations. This accomplishment demands emotion work and face work in order to perform a role which includes defending clients accused of heinous crimes and "losing" the majority of cases. As the defence team is central to this, the ways of doing teamwork with their joint efforts is explored.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2019-12-12

Language

English

Document type

Book

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • Emotion work
  • Ethnography
  • Sociology
  • Criminology
  • Law
  • Goffman

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-367-24879-6
  • ISBN: 978-0-429-28485-4