On Judgment

Managing Emotions in Trials of Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12283333
AutoresNoa Vaisman (0000-0002-2484-6436, Aarhus University, autor de correspondencia), Leticia Barrera (0000-0002-7001-9378, CONICET-IDAES, UNSAM, Argentina, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen29
Número6
Páginas812-834
Fecha de publicación2020-01-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Legal Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0964663919900974
OpenAlexW3003346247
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas36

For over a decade, judicial accountability of mass human rights violations committed during the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) has been carried out in federal courts by regular judges, following the rules of the National Code of Criminal Procedure. Research on these trials has focused mainly on the victims and the accused. This article opens a different path by exploring the affective experiences of the judges presiding over and leading the trials. Based on interviews with 18 federal court judges and some participant observation, in this article we present a descriptive exploration of the judges’ experiences and sensemaking processes. We examine the complex interaction between the professional requirement to separate emotions from judgment and the emotional toll that these trials produce in the personal and professional lives of the judges. We end with short reflections on these crimes against humanity trials in the post-Transitional Justice context

Crimes against humanity · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Political science · Sociology · War crime · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology