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Publication details [#42644]

Lee, Seung-Hee. 2005. The scales of justice: balancing neutrality and efficiency in plea-bargaining encounters. Discourse & Society 16 (1) : 33–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | courtroom conversation | law | objectivity

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper uses conversation analysis to investigate how judges balance the neutrality obligation with the demand for efficiency in plea-bargaining encounters.