Sailing between narrations: voices that construct and undermine the credibility in the legal scope

Authors

  • Jenny Cubells Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract

Extracts from interviews with various members of the legal community, and with two ex-prisoners and their partners, are used to argue that judicial accounts of events can be understood as narratives that construct Justice as credible, impartial and objective, while silencing opposing accounts. This paper analyses the discourse of the legal community on the one hand, and, on the other, critical voices that offer a new emancipatory discourse of Justice.

Keywords

Discurso, Etnografía, Psicología jurídica, Retórica

Author Biography

Jenny Cubells, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jenny Cubells Serra. Profesora Asociada en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UAB. Imparto docencia de las áreas Psicología Social y Psicología jurídica entre otras. Actualmente realizo investigación cualitativa sobre el tratamiento de la Violencia de Género en el ámbito penal.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenead/v1n8.222

Published

01-11-2005

How to Cite

Cubells, J. (2005). Sailing between narrations: voices that construct and undermine the credibility in the legal scope. thenea igital. evista e ensamiento investigación ocial, 1(8), 109–128. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenead/v1n8.222

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