Of Doubt and Proof

Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment

Daniela Berti, Anthony Good (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-63705-4 (ISBN)

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All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in contexts as diverse as Indian and Taiwanese divination and international cricket, as well as legal processes in France, the UK, India, Denmark, and Ghana, this book offers a comprehensive and novel perspective on techniques for casting and dispelling doubt, and the roles they play in achieving verdicts or decisions that appear both valid and just. Broadening the theoretical understandings of the social role of doubt, both in social science and in law, the authors present these understandings in ways that not only contribute to academic knowledge but are also useful to professionals and other participants engaged in the process of judging. This collection will consequently be of great interest to academics researching in the fields of legal anthropology, ritual studies, legal sociology, criminology, and socio-legal studies.

Daniela Berti is ’Chargée de Recherche’ at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, and a member of the Centre for Himalayan Studies at Villejuif. Her research in North India focuses on ritual interactions, politico-ritual roles and practices formerly associated with kingship, and on the ethnography of court cases in India. She recently coordinated with Gilles Tarabout an international research programme funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), entitled Just-India: A Joint Programme on Justice and Governance in India and South Asia. Anthony Good is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and formerly Head of the School of Social & Political Science. His research interests cover Tamil Nadu (South India), and Sri Lanka. He frequently acts as an expert witness in asylum appeals involving Sri Lankan Tamils. His recent research concerns uses of expert evidence in British asylum courts, and (with Robert Gibb) a comparative study of asylum processes in the UK and France. Gilles Tarabout is Emeritus ’Directeur de Recherche’ at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and formerly head of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC), at the University of Paris West-Nanterre. His research focuses especially on relationships between society and religion in Kerala (South India). He has recently been coordinating with Daniela Berti an international research programme funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), entitled Just-India: A Joint Programme on Justice and Governance in India and South Asia.

Introduction, AnthonyGood, DanielaBerti, GillesTarabout; Chapter 1 Technicalities of Doubting, DanielaBerti; Chapter 2 Judging Destiny, StéphanieHomola; Chapter 3 , GillesTarabout; Chapter 4 When Judges Feel Misjudged, JanBudniok; Chapter 5 Doubt in Action, VéroniqueBouillier; Chapter 6 ‘The Benefit of the Doubt’ in British Asylum Claims and International Cricket, AnthonyGood; Chapter 7 In Doubt, ZacharyWhyte; Chapter 8 Emotions as Evidence, CarolinaKobelinsky; Chapter 101 Afterword, TobiasKelly;

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Juris Diversitas
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-63705-X / 113863705X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-63705-4 / 9781138637054
Zustand	Neuware