细雨般的同情:理想的受害者和瑞典法庭上的同情之流

IF 1.5 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY International Review of Victimology Pub Date : 2021-08-18 DOI:10.1177/02697580211035586
Nina Törnqvist
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通过将同情的社会学观点与“理想受害者”的概念联系起来,本文探讨了同情是如何形成的,并告知了瑞典法院中与受害者地位相关的法律思想和实践。从广义上讲,同情可以理解为理解和关心他人的痛苦,在许多情况下,受害和同情是紧密纠缠在一起的。然而,由于客观和中立的理想在法庭上占上风,情感规范是狭隘的,同情遭到怀疑。根据在瑞典法院进行的人种学田野调查,我认为,虽然同情情绪主要是背景,但它们仍然是法庭诉讼和审议的核心部分。主要发现表明,检察官和受害者的律师使用“同情线索”来唤起法官对投诉人的关注,并促进他们对投诉人处境的移情想象。根据这一发现,法官从事情感工作是为了不受这些同情线索的影响。该研究还表明,在遇到“理想的受害者”时,他们对自己的受害表现出一种顽皮的反抗,法律行为者会更自由地表现出同情,并接受从正常的法庭互动秩序中暂时解脱出来的时刻。
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Drizzling sympathy: Ideal victims and flows of sympathy in Swedish courts
By connecting sociological perspectives on sympathy with the concept of ‘ideal victims’, this article examines how sympathy forms and informs legal thought and practices in relation to victim status in Swedish courts. In its broadest sense, sympathy can be understood as an understanding and care for someone else’s suffering and in many contexts victimization and sympathy are densely entangled. However, since ideals of objectivity and neutrality prevail in court, emotional norms are narrow and sympathy is met with suspicion. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Swedish courts, I argue that while sympathetic feelings are mostly backgrounded, they are still a central part of court proceedings and deliberations. The main findings suggest that prosecutors and victims’ counsel use ‘sympathy cues’ to evoke the judges’ concern for the complainants and to facilitate their empathic imagination of the complainant’s situation. In relation to this finding, judges engage in emotion work in order to not be affected by these sympathy cues. The study also shows that in encounters with ‘ideal victims’ who perform a playful resistance to their victimization, legal actors show sympathy more freely and accept moments of temporary relief from the normal interaction order in court.
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International Review of Victimology
International Review of Victimology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
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