Abstract
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 with their joint efforts is explored.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-429-28485-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-367-24879-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 Dec 12 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
Free keywords
- Emotion work
- Ethnography
- Sociology
- Criminology
- Law
- Goffman
