TY - JOUR
T1 - A Sociological Perspective on Emotion Work and Judging
AU - Roach Anleu, Sharyn
AU - Mack, Kathy
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Judicial work requires judicial officers to manage their own emotions and related conduct, as well as to anticipate, interpret, respond to and manage emotions and behaviours of others, most visibly in the interaction order of the courtroom. A detailed, sociological analysis of judicial interview data reveals the ways judicial officers themselves understand, manage and use emotion in their everyday work. Judicial emotion work is more than a purely individual or personal enterprise. It operates in accordance with explicit and implicit feeling and display rules, cultural scripts and legal norms that shape the relation between emotion and judging. The ways judicial officers articulate their understanding of emotion in their everyday work reveals their reproduction and potential transformation of the boundaries between emotion and their status as judge. These findings reposition emotion work as central to judicial performance and enable emotion itself to be recognised as a positive judicial resource.
AB - Judicial work requires judicial officers to manage their own emotions and related conduct, as well as to anticipate, interpret, respond to and manage emotions and behaviours of others, most visibly in the interaction order of the courtroom. A detailed, sociological analysis of judicial interview data reveals the ways judicial officers themselves understand, manage and use emotion in their everyday work. Judicial emotion work is more than a purely individual or personal enterprise. It operates in accordance with explicit and implicit feeling and display rules, cultural scripts and legal norms that shape the relation between emotion and judging. The ways judicial officers articulate their understanding of emotion in their everyday work reveals their reproduction and potential transformation of the boundaries between emotion and their status as judge. These findings reposition emotion work as central to judicial performance and enable emotion itself to be recognised as a positive judicial resource.
KW - emotions
KW - emotion work
KW - courts
KW - judges
KW - judging
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP0210306
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP0669168
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP0665198
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP1096888
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP150103663
U2 - 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1032
DO - 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168370208
SN - 2079-5971
VL - 9
SP - 831
EP - 851
JO - Onati Socio-Legal Series
JF - Onati Socio-Legal Series
IS - 5
ER -