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Materialities of legal proceedings
Materialitäten der Gerichtsverhandlung
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Abstract
The author explores materialities as pre-established and co-producing features of criminal proceedings. This is done by discussing courtrooms, files and stories in relation to English Crown Court hearings. The three materialities gain significance in the course of the court hearing, but do not deriv... view more
The author explores materialities as pre-established and co-producing features of criminal proceedings. This is done by discussing courtrooms, files and stories in relation to English Crown Court hearings. The three materialities gain significance in the course of the court hearing, but do not derive from it. They exceed the course of talk-in-court. Once the hearing started, the pre-established materialities can be referred to but not simply modified. Materialities, in this line, provide stability and guidance for the hearing. They facilitate, purify and condense it. However, their temporal separation causes problems for those who run the show. Materialities can be employed but not fully integrated. Unwelcome parts do, at times, disturb, disrupt and complicate the current dealings.... view less
Keywords
trial; evidence; legal proceedings; court hearing
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Method
descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2004
Page/Pages
p. 356-389
Journal
International Journal for Semiotics of Law, 17 (2004) 4
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works