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Courtroom Ethnography : Exploring contemporary approaches, fieldwork and challenges

Flower, Lisa LU orcid and Klosterkamp, Sarah (2023)
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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editor
LU orcid and Klosterkamp, Sarah
organization
publishing date
type
Book/Report
publication status
published
subject
keywords
courtroom ethnography, fieldwork
pages
232 pages
publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
external identifiers
  • scopus:85197583287
ISBN
978-303137985-7
9783031379840
DOI
10.1007/9783031379857
language
English
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yes
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date added to LUP
2023-05-23 14:24:06
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2025-07-11 05:21:28
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