Maynard1988a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Douglas W. Maynard |
| Title | Narratives and narrative structure in plea bargaining |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Narratives, Plea Bargaining, Courtroom Interaction |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Journal | Law and Society Review |
| Volume | 22 |
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| Pages | 101-133 |
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Abstract
Recent interest in oral language and law (Atkinson & Drew, 1979; Danet, 1980; Levi, 1985; O’Barr, 1982; Pomerantz & Atkinson, 1984), repeating a characteristic of earlier research on criminal justice (cf. Newman, 1966:xiv, Rosett & Cressey, 1976), gives disproportionate attention to trials and formal proceedings rather than informal processes such as plea bargaining, even though it is in the give-and-take of the more casual setting that practitioners settle the bulk of cases coming before the courts. To be specific, the “explosion” of ethnographic research on plea bargaining during the last 15 years (Maynard, 1984:1) makes it abundantly clear that attorneys often present “facts” by telling stories about “what happened.” However, although investigators have explored various dimensions of storytelling in the courtroom (Bennett & Feldman, 1981; O’Barr & Conley, 1985), narratives in the negotiational arena are unstudied and unexplicated.
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