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Courtroom Ethnography

Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Flower

    1. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  2. Sarah Klosterkamp

    1. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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  • Explores doing courtroom ethnography from a range of perspectives
  • Encourages students and researchers to consider and plan their own ethnographic research
  • Presents new ways of understanding and conducting courtroom ethnography

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction to Courtroom Ethnography

    • Sarah Klosterkamp, Lisa Flower
    Pages 1-13

  3. Doing Courtroom Ethnography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Framing the View

      • Jessica Hambly
      Pages 17-31

    3. Negotiating Access

      • Sara Uhnoo, Moa Bladini, Åsa Wettergren
      Pages 33-46

    4. Positionality and Research Ethics

      • Sarah Klosterkamp, Tasniem Anwar
      Pages 47-60

    5. Challenging the Authority of Sight

      • Alex Jeffrey
      Pages 61-73

    6. Studying Legal Courts Trans-sequentially

      • Thomas Scheffer
      Pages 75-91

    7. Teaching Courtroom Ethnography

      • Axel Pohn-Weidinger
      Pages 93-107

  4. Contemporary and Critical Aspects of Courtroom Ethnography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Video Links and Eyework

      • Lisa Flower, Sarah Klosterkamp, Emma Rowden
      Pages 111-128

    3. Hate Crime and Reverse Engineering the Law

      • Kerstin Bree Carlson
      Pages 129-144

    4. Towards Child-Friendly Asylum Justice

      • Sara Lembrechts
      Pages 145-160

    5. Moral Communication in Court

      • Louise Victoria Johansen, Julie Laursen
      Pages 161-177

    6. The Court as a Site of Rediscrimination

      • Samantha Morgan-Williams, Fiona Donson
      Pages 179-194

    7. Observing Courtrooms in Contexts of Exceptionality

      • Jeanne Hersant, Fabiola Miranda-Pérez
      Pages 195-208

    8. Courtroom Performances of Masculinities and Victimhood

      • Tea Fredriksson, Anita Heber
      Pages 209-223

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 225-232
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About this book

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. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Lisa Flower

  • University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Sarah Klosterkamp

About the editors

Lisa Flower is Associate Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests include the hidden emotion and interaction rules in courtrooms and the legal profession.

Sarah Klosterkamp is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Bonn University, Germany. She previously worked at the Institute for Geography at the University of Münster (2015-2020).



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Courtroom Ethnography

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges

  • Editors: Lisa Flower, Sarah Klosterkamp

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37985-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37984-0Published: 28 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37987-1Due: 29 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37985-7Published: 27 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Socio-legal Studies, Ethnography, Social Sciences, general, Research Methods in Criminology, Victimology

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