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Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts
Sharyn Roach Anleu
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Description for Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts
Hardback. A highly original and empirically-informed study of the performance of judicial authority in the lower criminal courts, bringing together extensive socio-legal research and interviews with magistrates, judges and court staff to offer up a more varied and nuanced analysis of the legitimacy of judicial decision-making. Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: LAF; LAT; LNAA1; LNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of lower courts. Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts draws on extensive original, independent empirical data to identify different ways judicial officers approach and experience their work. It theorizes the meanings of these variations for the legitimate performance of judicial authority. The central theoretical and empirical finding presented in this book is the incomplete fit between conventional norms of judicial performance, emphasizing detachment and impersonality, and the practical, day-to-day judicial work ... Read more
Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of lower courts. Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts draws on extensive original, independent empirical data to identify different ways judicial officers approach and experience their work. It theorizes the meanings of these variations for the legitimate performance of judicial authority. The central theoretical and empirical finding presented in this book is the incomplete fit between conventional norms of judicial performance, emphasizing detachment and impersonality, and the practical, day-to-day judicial work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137521583
SKU
V9781137521583
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99-15
About Sharyn Roach Anleu
Sharyn Roach Anleu is is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has published widely on sociology of law, deviance and social control, and gender in the legal profession. Kathy Mack is an Emerita ... Read more
Reviews for Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts
Original, authoritative and scholarly, Performing Judicial Authority in the Lower Courts by Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack is an essential text for law, socio-legal and criminology students. But it is also recommended as a most informative and enjoyable read for everyone else interested in law, politics and social justice. (Pat Carlen, The British Journal of Criminology, October, 2017) ... Read more