Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse

Olson, Greta

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“…Correspondingly and vice versa, in the case of individual narratives there are rules of narration, to which stories are adapted. In the interviews reconstructed here this was the institutional demands of the imminent trial, in the context of which narrations have to correspond to particular expectations (Atkinson and Drew, 1979; Olson, 2014). The defendants structured their stories accordingly, often in order to achieve a favorable sentence for themselves (Dollinger and Fröschle, 2017).…”

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Subjects in criminality discourse: On the narrative positioning of young defendants

Dollinger

2017

Punishment & Society

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This essay locates itself in the context of “narrative criminology”. By means of analyses of the categorization work performed by young defendants in interviews, it is reconstructed how they conceptualize themselves interactively as subjects and/or “perpetrators”. This categorization not only performs a location within the, respectively, told story and the interactive situation of the interview; the interviewees also position themselves in cultural criminal discourse. The analysis of corresponding narrations can therefore contribute to understanding the connection of individual and public narratives on criminality. This is described on the basis of three case examples. With a “sad story”, a heroic story and references to individual cases that received particularly great public attention, the interviewees each develop context-specific categorizations and cultural positionings of “their” criminality and biography.

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Subjects in criminality discourse: On the narrative positioning of young defendants

Dollinger

2017

Punishment & Society

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“…Narratives in the legal field commonly use guilt or innocence of the defendant based on the interpretation on evidence. The relation between the law and literature concerning literary thematizations of legal concerns has developed (Greta Olson 2014 48 ; Anker and Meyler2017; 49 Robert 2011; 50 Porsdam, 2012; 51 Weissberg 1983; 52 Brooks 2006 53 or Larue 2010 54 ) with the influence of legal (especially metaphorical) language on legal practice (Hyde 1997). 55 Much of this research involves narrative concerns.…”

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Using Narrative Theory on Analysis of Law and Human Rights: Searching Truth on Tanjung Priok’s Incident in Indonesia

Saibih¹

2020

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Law and Governance (ICLAVE 2019)

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The term of narratives methods for some legal scholar is quite unfamiliar, even though for some legal practitioner this method is widely used in producing any legal documents or legal practice product. This article is trying to familiarize the narratives methods and analysis among legal scholar and also the importance of using narrative methods and analysis for settlement of past severe violations of human rights in Indonesia. Using the only past severe violation of human rights case in Indonesia, Tanjung Priok Case is the only case that happened in New Era Government or the era of government under (late) President Soeharto, this case was acknowledged as severe violation of human rights and has impacted to established the Ad-Hoc Human Rights Court for Tanjung Priok 1984. This article is trying to present how important using personal story and experiences in settling the case, gathering the information from the victims and also using the narration of observation report as a part of truth seeking in addition to make an analysis to produce the policy in the settlement of past severe violation of human rights.

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“…For instance, relying on accounts in reported law (legislation and case law) as standalone data sources leaves out numerous dimensions that may be relevant for answering research questions. Greta Olson (2014) writes that legal texts have a distinct manner of presentation of facts, more useful for purposes of legal reasoning and the expression of abstract norms than for providing a sense of the person behind the text. The voice of law is a neutral disembodied one that seldom engages with the emotions or sentiments of the characters in its narrations.…”

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Britishness, belonging and citizenship

Prabhat¹

2018

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Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse

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Subjects in criminality discourse: On the narrative positioning of young defendants

Subjects in criminality discourse: On the narrative positioning of young defendants

Using Narrative Theory on Analysis of Law and Human Rights: Searching Truth on Tanjung Priok’s Incident in Indonesia

Britishness, belonging and citizenship

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