Disappointed justice: the senses of justice from the rituals of the legal field

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https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica.i.a55395

Keywords:

Moral order, Rui Barbosa, Differentiated treatment, Jeitinho, Supplication.

Abstract

This article examines how participants in the Brazilian legal field imagine, elaborate, and use the category of justice. The data comes from the insertion of its author in a law school in the country’s capital. This experience is articulated as an ethnography, a method that allows transforming that which, in its origin, takes place as an individual and subjective experience into objective data. The article frames the practices of students, lawyers, judges, public defenders, prosecutors, and other legal professions using the notion of rituals. It was possible to perceive that the actors used in the same concrete case, simultaneously and strategically, several contradictory justice criteria. Equality before the law was not among them.

French version: https://journals.openedition.org/bresils/15929

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Author Biography

Luiz Eduardo Abreu, Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Brasília

Professor do Departamento de Antropologia da Universidade de Brasília. Doutor Antropologia pela Universidade de Brasília. Pesquisador do Instituto de Estudos Comparados em Administração de Conflitos.

Published

2023-11-30

How to Cite

Abreu, L. E. (2023). Disappointed justice: the senses of justice from the rituals of the legal field. Antropolítica - Revista Contemporânea De Antropologia. https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica.i.a55395

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