SLSS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adversarial System, The Courtroom, Lawrence M. Friedman

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociolegal Studies
• Course: SLSS1001
• Professor: Allen George

Document Summary

Organisation of the courtroom as a ritualised event and space. Courts have changed over time, alternative forms of court procedure. The advantages and disadvantages of the adversarial system and the relationship of divisions of class, race, ethnicity . Readings: the staging of the magistrate"s justice, understanding criminal justice. Lawyers and judicial proceedings are cognisant of rhetorical presentations. Jerome frank discussed the conventional ascription of character which occurs in law courts and which is dependent on tacit dimensions of interpersonal character. Furniture, stage-props, scenic devices, tacit scheduling programmes, etiquettes of ritual address and reference are all immediately ad documentarily indexed with consequential social meanings . Which are with mundane, realities or alternative realities, surrealistic. Certain people can monopolize and manipulate the scenic and scheduling arrangements -coercive control. Within the courtrooms of the magistrates courts, tacit control of their spatial and temporal properties is the monopoly of the police and the judicial personnel. Police: responsibility of staging and the prosecution business.