CRI350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Procedural Justice
28 Aug 2018
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Evolution in research method: an example from socio-legal studies. Issues: folk categories that overlap with formal ones. (eg. saving a parking space) Legal activities/processes outsides institutions or in their shadow. Legality as structure of life, interpretive framework, set of resources. Survey method: picture of range of variation , but only cross essential not longitudinal. Three narratives: law as majestic, law as a game, law as trickery. Surprising finding that inequality does not seem to have large effects on attitudes. What is implicit for subjects (not spoken, perhaps not thought consciously) Research that shows strong support for institutions, procedural justice. Example from post-sov police research: willingness to help the police. Patricia ewick and susan silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways that people use and experience it. Their fascinating and original study identifies three common narratives of law that are captured in the stories people tell.
