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Regimes of Legality: Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia

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An anthropological study on judicial practices in South Asia, this volume takes criminal cases as frameworks to examine power dynamics within a legal setting. Case studies in this book analyse a set of state and non-state institutions and the practices of people associated with them. The
essays delve into the underlying tension in institutional contexts between legal practitioners such as police officers, lawyers, and judges who orient their claims towards neutralism, objectivity, and equality and a set of everyday interactions and decisions where cultural, social, and political
factors play a major role.

This volume is based on the premise that the study of judiciary cases, in all their multifaceted complexity, provides a pertinent and original angle from which to access some issues of South Asia. The contributors examine the discourses and relationships around criminal cases that shape how ideas
circulate in the public sphere and how mediation and negotiation between different actors characterize police and court practices.

Pages: 364

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 30, 2015

ISBN: 0199456747

ISBN 13: 9780199456741

Regimes of Legality: Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia

0/5 ( ratings)

An anthropological study on judicial practices in South Asia, this volume takes criminal cases as frameworks to examine power dynamics within a legal setting. Case studies in this book analyse a set of state and non-state institutions and the practices of people associated with them. The
essays delve into the underlying tension in institutional contexts between legal practitioners such as police officers, lawyers, and judges who orient their claims towards neutralism, objectivity, and equality and a set of everyday interactions and decisions where cultural, social, and political
factors play a major role.

This volume is based on the premise that the study of judiciary cases, in all their multifaceted complexity, provides a pertinent and original angle from which to access some issues of South Asia. The contributors examine the discourses and relationships around criminal cases that shape how ideas
circulate in the public sphere and how mediation and negotiation between different actors characterize police and court practices.

Pages: 364

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 30, 2015

ISBN: 0199456747

ISBN 13: 9780199456741

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