• ISBN13: 9780199456741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Law and Criminology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 364
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 545 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Criminal Law / General

About the Book 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.

Daniela Berti, Devika Bordia

Daniela Berti is 'Chargée de Recherche' research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris; and Centre for Himalayan Studies, Villejuif.

Devika Bordia is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen.