10829nam 2200541 450 991073482180332120211019081208.03-030-66984-X(CKB)4100000011807097(MiAaPQ)EBC6531815(Au-PeEL)EBL6531815(OCoLC)1244626675(PPN)254724140(EXLCZ)99410000001180709720211019d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCourtroom power distance dynamics /Michał Dudek, Mateusz StępieńCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource (xii, 295 pages) illustrationsLaw and visual jurisprudence ;Volume 33-030-66983-1 Includes bibliographical references.Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Origin of the Book -- 1.2 Context and the Main Subject -- 1.3 A Glimpse of Chapter 2 -- 1.4 A Glance at Chapter 3 -- 1.5 A Peek at Chapter 4 -- 1.6 Foreshadowing the Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Courts, Courtrooms, and Power Distance -- 2.1 Organizational Culture of Courts -- 2.1.1 Courts as Organizations -- 2.1.2 Concept of Organizational Culture -- 2.1.3 Applications -- 2.1.4 Organizational Culture Dimensions -- 2.2 Geert Hofstede´s Concept of Power Distance -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 On Geert Hofstede´s Definition of Power Distance -- 2.2.3 Differences Between Low and High Power Distance -- 2.2.4 Critique of Hofstede´s Concept of Power Distance -- 2.2.5 (After All) Positive Reflection -- 2.3 Using the Concept of Power Distance in the Legal Context -- 2.3.1 The Relative Lack of Interest -- 2.3.2 Procedural Justice and Power Distance -- 2.3.3 Decision-Makers and Power Distance -- 2.3.4 Lay Assessors, Judicial Decision-Making, and Power Distance -- 2.3.5 Common Points -- 2.4 Searching for Inspiration -- 2.4.1 Establishing the Guiding Criteria -- 2.4.2 Krzysztof Pałecki´s Normativity-Oriented Concept of Power -- 2.4.3 Some Polemic Thoughts -- 2.4.4 Lesson Learned -- 2.5 Toward the Three-Level Power Distance Concept -- 2.6 Subjective Power Distance -- 2.7 Organizational Power Distance -- 2.7.1 The Basics -- 2.7.2 Relative Independence -- 2.7.3 Coherence -- 2.7.4 ``Incompleteness´´ -- 2.7.5 Researching Organizational Power Distance -- 2.8 Interactional Power Distance -- 2.8.1 The Basics -- 2.8.2 Relativity -- 2.8.3 Controllability and Uncontrollability -- 2.8.4 Researching Interactional Power Distance -- 2.9 Self-Critical Reflection on Three-Level Power Distance -- 2.10 Commentary on Communication Accommodation Theory -- 2.10.1 Basic Idea.2.10.2 Difficulties to Consider -- 2.10.3 The Idea of Base-Level Communication and Its Possible Implications -- 2.11 Three-Level Power Distance and Communication Accommodation Theory -- 2.11.1 Similarities -- 2.11.2 Differences -- 2.11.3 Supplement to Three-Level Power Distance -- 2.12 For What Can the Three-Level Power Distance Be Used? -- References -- Chapter 3: Judge-Witness Courtroom Power Distance Dynamics -- 3.1 Complexity of Research on Judge-Witness Courtroom Power Distance -- 3.2 Observation Research in Kraków Regional Courts -- 3.2.1 Basic Information on the Research -- 3.2.2 Research Site -- 3.2.3 The Socio-Political Context of the Research -- 3.2.4 Research Technique -- 3.2.5 Analyzing the Collected Empirical Data -- 3.3 How Judges Address Delayed Case Hearings -- 3.3.1 The Absence of Reaction -- 3.3.2 Different Reactions to Different Delays -- 3.3.3 Side Note on (Not) Welcoming Case Hearing Participants -- 3.3.4 The Importance of Apology and Two Modes of Welcoming -- 3.4 The Swearing-in of Witnesses -- 3.4.1 Characteristics of Polish Regulations -- 3.4.2 The Typical Manner of Dealing With the Swearing-in of Witnesses -- 3.4.3 The Main Problems With Dominant Practices -- 3.4.4 Professionalization of the Ritual -- 3.5 The Way the Judges Self-Refer -- 3.5.1 How Judges Talk About Themselves Matters -- 3.5.2 The Basic Form -- 3.5.3 Use of the First-Person by Judges -- 3.5.4 Mixed Manners of Judges Addressing Themselves -- 3.5.5 Using ``We´´ -- 3.5.6 Between the Forms ``I´´ and ``the Court´´ -- 3.6 The Way the Judge Refers to Hearing Participants -- 3.6.1 The Inevitability of Addressing -- 3.6.2 First Mode: Without Indication of the Subject, Using the Infinitive Verb Form -- 3.6.3 Second Mode: With Nominative Indication of the Subject´s Status in the Hearing and Third-Person Verb Forms.3.6.4 Third Mode: With the Nominative Honorific, Indication of the Subject´s Status in the Hearing and Third-Person Verb Forms -- 3.6.5 Fourth Mode: With a Vocative Honorific and the Indication of the Subject´s Status in the Hearing -- 3.6.6 Fifth Mode: Non-Nominative Honorific -- 3.6.7 Sixth Mode: Non-Nominative Honorific and the First Name of the Addressed Person -- 3.6.8 Seventh Mode: ``Ladies and Gentlemen´´ -- 3.6.9 Eighth Mode: First-Person Plural -- 3.6.10 Inconsistency and Entanglement -- 3.6.11 Instrumentality and Easy-to-Overlook Character -- 3.7 Judicial Corrections to Hearing Participants´ Actions -- 3.7.1 Preliminary, Pre-Empirical Reflection -- 3.7.2 Basic Examples of Formal Judicial Corrections -- 3.7.3 Ineffective, Disproportionate, and Selective Formal Corrections -- 3.7.4 No Formal Corrections When Needed -- 3.7.5 Substantial Judicial Corrections -- 3.7.6 Cases That Are Difficult to Interpret Unequivocally -- 3.7.7 Power Distance-Increasing Substantial Judicial Corrections -- 3.7.8 Power Distance-Decreasing Substantial Judicial Corrections -- 3.7.9 Some Practical Suggestions -- 3.8 When Hearing Participants (Especially Witnesses) Correct the Judge -- 3.8.1 Putting Correcting Judges in Context -- 3.8.2 Professionals as Correctors -- 3.8.3 Witnesses as Correctors -- 3.8.4 Correcting as a Non-Obvious Indicator of Power Distance -- 3.9 Judicial Explanations to Case Hearing Participants -- 3.9.1 Pre-Empirical Guess -- 3.9.2 Decrease of Power Distance: A Prevalent Effect of Judicial Explanations? -- 3.9.3 Between Default Power Distance and Increasing Power Distance -- 3.9.4 A Case of Power Distance-Increasing Judicial Explanation -- 3.9.5 Ambivalence of Judicial Explanations -- 3.10 Minutes-Taking and Judge-Clerk Relations -- 3.10.1 The Function of Clerks in Polish Courtrooms.3.10.2 Chronological and Reassumption Minutes from the Perspective of Power Distance -- 3.10.3 Faithfulness of Judicial Dictation -- 3.10.4 Frequency of Interruptions, Speaking Volume, and Pace in Judicial Dictation -- 3.10.5 Meta Statements in Judicial Dictation -- 3.10.6 Linguistic Precision in Judicial Dictation -- 3.10.7 Other Features of Minutes-Taking -- 3.10.8 Additional Remarks on Judge-Clerk Relation -- 3.10.9 Modifying Minutes-Taking Practices, Modifying Judge-Clerk Relation -- 3.11 Ending Witnesses´ Testimony -- 3.11.1 The Relevance of Endings -- 3.11.2 Typical Ways of Ending the Hearings and Questioning the Witnesses -- 3.11.3 Atypical Cases -- 3.11.4 When the End of Questioning and the End of the Hearing Coincide -- 3.11.5 On More Active Witnesses -- 3.11.6 On the Way to a Better Ending -- 3.12 Judicial Verbal Communication -- 3.12.1 Three Aspects -- 3.12.2 First Aspect: Fluency -- 3.12.3 Fluency and Power Distance -- 3.12.4 Second Aspect: Consistency -- 3.12.5 Predominance of Deviations from Consistency -- 3.12.6 Third Aspect: Formality and Informality -- 3.12.7 A Case of Formality and a Note on ``Accommodators´´ and ``Accommodatees´´ -- 3.12.8 Fluctuating Between Formality and Informality -- 3.12.9 (More Consistent) Judicial Verbal Informality and Its Manifestations -- 3.12.10 Raising Awareness About the Judicial Verbal Communication -- 3.13 Judicial Non-Verbal Communication -- 3.13.1 Limited Scope of Analyses -- 3.13.2 Non-Verbal Indicators of Judge´s Attention and Understanding -- 3.13.3 Non-Verbality as an Illustration of Verbality, and Non-Verbality as a Substitute to Verbality -- 3.13.4 Self-Centered Judicial Non-Verbality -- 3.13.5 Paradoxicality of Better Control Over Non-Verbality -- 3.14 Smiling in the Courtroom -- 3.14.1 Problematizing Smiling -- 3.14.2 Judicial Smile as a Correction-Softening Tool.3.14.3 Judicial Smile as a Stress Reliever -- 3.14.4 Judicial Smiles as a Way of Commenting on the Witnesses´ Statements -- 3.14.5 Judicial Smiles in the Name of Professional Bonding -- 3.14.6 A Commentary on Witnesses as Smile-Provokers -- 3.14.7 The Accused and Malicious Laughter -- 3.14.8 The Ambiguities of Smiling in the Courtroom -- 3.15 Judges´ Clothes -- 3.15.1 Taking a Closer Look at Judges Outside the Courtroom -- 3.15.2 Judges´ ``Unrobed´´ Appearances -- 3.15.3 Another Dress Code for Judges? -- 3.16 General Findings -- 3.16.1 Focusing on Interactional Details -- 3.16.2 The Basic Trends -- 3.16.3 Power Distance and Procedural Principles -- 3.16.4 Toward the Innovations -- 3.16.5 Limitations -- Appendix A List of Observations -- References -- Legal Acts -- Chapter 4: Subjective Power Distance and Assessments of Judge´s Behaviors -- 4.1 Research Question -- 4.2 Applied Research Design -- 4.3 Characteristic of the Sample -- 4.4 Capturing the Subjective Power Distance -- 4.4.1 Choosing the Power Differential Scale -- 4.4.2 Characterizing and Adjusting the Power Differential Scale -- 4.4.3 Participants´ Subjective Power Distance -- 4.5 Capturing the Assessments of Judge´s Behaviors in Film Clips Research -- 4.5.1 Structure of Questionnaire 2 -- 4.5.2 The Evaluation of Participants´ Attention -- 4.5.3 The Sample´s Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Assessments of Judge´s Behaviors -- 4.5.4 Detailed Assessments -- 4.5.5 General Assessments -- 4.6 Drawing Inspiration from Nonconfirmation of Hypothesis -- 4.6.1 The Answer to the Main Research Question -- 4.6.2 Toward the Refinement of the Power Distance Studies -- 4.7 Methodological Self-Reflection -- 4.7.1 Introductory Remarks -- 4.7.2 Commentary on Psychometrics -- 4.7.3 A Note on the Power Differential Scale -- 4.7.4 Reflections on the Judge´s Behaviors Assessment Questionnaire.4.7.5 Problem with the Sample.Law and visual jurisprudence ;Volume 3.Conduct of court proceedingsPower (Social sciences)Conduct of court proceedings.Power (Social sciences)347.012Dudek Micha(Lawyer),848214Stępień MateuszMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910734821803321Courtroom power distance dynamics3404535UNINA