Essays about: "witnesses’ legal position"

Found 1 essay containing the words witnesses’ legal position.

  1. 1. ‘The Forgotten Soul of the Criminal Justice System’. A critical discourse analysis of the legislator’s legitimation of witnesses’ legal position in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Andrea Flack; [2018]
    Keywords : legitimacy; witnesses; critical discourse analysis; witnesses’ legal position; path dependency; jurisdictive process; representation; policy discourse; the criminal justice system; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : With a starting point in the notion that witnesses are a neglected category of individuals of the criminal justice system, this study critically examines policy discourses within the jurisdictive process regarding witnesses’ legal position. By conducting a discourse analysis with a critical approach, the study analyzes a corpus of textual data comprised by a subset of policy documents on the area released during the period 1990 to 2018, in which policy discourses are produced and reproduced. READ MORE