Judging and Emotion: A Socio-Legal Analysis

Judging and Emotion explores how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage, and deploy emotions in their everyday work, challenging the conventional assumption that emotion is unpredictable, stressful, or inconsistent with impartiality. Empirical research with Australian judicial officers demonstrates the ways emotion, emotional capacities, and emotion work are integral to judicial practice. It articulates a broader conception of emotion as a social practice emerging from interaction and shows how judicial officers undertake emotion work and use emotion as a resource to achieve impartiality. The book will be of considerable importance to socio-legal scholars, sociologists, the judiciary, legal practitioners, and all users of the courts.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 214 pages
\n Publication date: 04 February 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Judging and Emotion delves into the intricate realm of how judicial officers comprehend, navigate, express, regulate, and utilize emotions in their daily work, all while upholding their steadfast commitment to impartiality. It challenges the prevailing notion that emotions are inherently erratic, burdensome, or incompatible with impartiality. Through extensive empirical research conducted with Australian judicial officers, the book showcases the indispensable role of emotion, emotional capacities, and emotion work in judicial practice. It presents a broader perspective on emotion, as a social practice that emerges through interactions, and elucidates how judicial officers engage in emotion work and harness emotion as a valuable resource to attain impartiality. A significant revelation is that institutional requirements, such as conceptions of impartiality as dispassion, do not fully dictate the emotional dimensions of judicial work. Rather, judicial officers actively construct and uphold the boundaries of an impartial judicial role, which inherently incorporates emotion and emotion work.

This book holds immense significance for socio-legal scholars, sociologists, the judiciary, legal practitioners, and anyone engaged with the courts. It contributes to the growing interest in emotion within the law and social sciences, offering valuable insights and perspectives that will enrich the understanding and practice of justice.

\n Weight: 490g\n
Dimension: 159 x 241 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138893023\n \n