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Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty

Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty

Flower, Lisa

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Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions

CognitionGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367647214
ISBN13: 9780367647216
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 6 2020
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Interactional Justice explores how defence lawyers accomplish their role in interaction with others and highlights the ways in which they do loyalty work - constructing and conveying loyalty in emotionally and interactionally constraining situations.

By drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldnotes and interviews with lawyers, this sociological study brings their loyalty work to life and reveals to the reader the unwritten rules of emotional interactions. It presents how defence lawyers socially construct their duty of loyalty by negotiating informal and implicit professional and social expectations. This accomplishment demands emotion work and face work in order to perform a role which includes defending clients accused of heinous crimes and losing the majority of cases. As the defence team is central to this, the ways of doing teamwork are illustrated. Teamwork is also found to be essential between legal professionals to ensure that a criminal trial runs smoothly. All of this takes place within an overarching framework - the emotional regime of law - which aims to uphold the illusionary dichotomy between rationality and emotionality thus quietening the role of emotions.

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