Kate Rossmanith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Rossmanith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossmanith |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSMANITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2000-6971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Law and emotion: Methods and the Field
The workshop brought together 16 researchers (and 15 paper presentations) working in diverse disciplinary contexts -anthropology, creative practice, criminology, cultural studies, history, law, literary studies, media, psychology, sociology and sociolegal studies -all focusing on law and emotion.Emotion is present and significant throughout law, but methodological approaches to studying emotion in and around law remain disparate.The purpose of th…
Imagining Closure as a Proprioceptive Problem
This essay aims to advance theorisations of ‘closure’ as an emotion concept, and to offer new understandings of the relationship between emotion and imagination, including how such a dynamic might be studied. In justice contexts, ‘closure’ operates clumsily as both a legal outcome and an emotional expectation, an imagined affective state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with people who work in, and who are caught up in, the justi…
How do researchers study emotion in and around law
Research on law and emotion has flourished in the last quarter of a century, underpinned by a range of theoretical and philosophical approaches. The field, while deeply interdisciplinary, originally developed around several disciplinary silos through the research of legal practitioners, jurisprudence theorists, social scientists and humanities scholars. Despite the field’s growth, methodological approaches have largely remained disparate. Researc…
The ‘poietic’ turn: Creative arts research in the academy
This article is concerned with creative arts practices as forms of knowing, and as forms capable of expressing this knowing. Our aim here is to make sense of the factors that have driven creative artists into the university over the last three decades, and to articulate how creative practices function in the present ‘research’ context. We argue that, after three decades of creative arts practice aligning to university notions of ‘research’, somet…
Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
The Problem of Story: Criminal Evidence, Affect, and Sense-making
Poignant, complex relationships exist between forensic evidence, people’s efforts to comprehend painful events, and the role of story-structures and storytelling. While there is intense public interest in criminal cases, and while law and criminology research acknowledges the centrality of narrative in criminal justice matters, significantly more research is needed to better understand the complicated intersections between criminal procedure, sen…
Courtroom contrition: How do judges know
In most common-law jurisdictions world-wide, an offender’s remorse is a well-settled mitigating factor in sentencing, with judges obliged to take it into account when formulating an offender’s sentence. However, the importance of remorse in sentencing is matched by its mystery. Given remorse’s central role in the moral drama of the criminal justice process, it is crucial to investigate how remorse is evaluated, and also to understand the limitati…
Affect and the Judicial Assessment of Offenders: Feeling and Judging Remorse
In most common law jurisdictions worldwide, an offender's remorse is a mitigating factor in sentencing. It matters whether or not a person who has committed a crime is truly sorry for what they have done. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear. Drawing on 18 interviews with judges in the New South Wales criminal justice system in Australia, this article examines the status of offenders' live, sworn evidence in the judiciary's ass…
Plots and Artefacts: Courts and Criminal Evidence in the Production of True Crime Writing
This article examines some ethical and practical concerns of producing true crime writing, examining the role of criminal evidence in the generation of such texts. Writers draw on a range of (often) sensitive forensic material in order to develop a cohesive story, and yet such use has still to be properly examined. Drawing on my own experience as a socio-legal scholar who writes literary nonfiction crime essays for the general reader, I ask quest…
P erving at C rime S cenes: Authenticity, Ethics, Aesthetics: A Conversation
© 2015 Routledge. All rights reserved. This is a conversation between a law professor (Katherine Biber), a curator and researcher of crime scene photographs (Peter Doyle), and a non-fiction writer of true crime (Kate Rossmanith). The three participants have begun what we hope will be a long-term collaboration, working with a shared interest in the cultural impact of crime
How do researchers study emotion in and around law
Research on law and emotion has flourished in the last quarter of a century, underpinned by a range of theoretical and philosophical approaches. The field, while deeply interdisciplinary, originally developed around several disciplinary silos through the research of legal practitioners, jurisprudence theorists, social scientists and humanities scholars. Despite the field’s growth, methodological approaches have largely remained disparate. Researc…
Affect and the Judicial Assessment of Offenders: Feeling and Judging Remorse
In most common law jurisdictions worldwide, an offender's remorse is a mitigating factor in sentencing. It matters whether or not a person who has committed a crime is truly sorry for what they have done. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear. Drawing on 18 interviews with judges in the New South Wales criminal justice system in Australia, this article examines the status of offenders' live, sworn evidence in the judiciary's ass…
P erving at C rime S cenes: Authenticity, Ethics, Aesthetics: A Conversation
© 2015 Routledge. All rights reserved. This is a conversation between a law professor (Katherine Biber), a curator and researcher of crime scene photographs (Peter Doyle), and a non-fiction writer of true crime (Kate Rossmanith). The three participants have begun what we hope will be a long-term collaboration, working with a shared interest in the cultural impact of crime
Plots and Artefacts: Courts and Criminal Evidence in the Production of True Crime Writing
This article examines some ethical and practical concerns of producing true crime writing, examining the role of criminal evidence in the generation of such texts. Writers draw on a range of (often) sensitive forensic material in order to develop a cohesive story, and yet such use has still to be properly examined. Drawing on my own experience as a socio-legal scholar who writes literary nonfiction crime essays for the general reader, I ask quest…
Affect and the Judicial Assessment of Offenders: Feeling and Judging Remorse
In most common law jurisdictions worldwide, an offender's remorse is a mitigating factor in sentencing. It matters whether or not a person who has committed a crime is truly sorry for what they have done. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear. Drawing on 18 interviews with judges in the New South Wales criminal justice system in Australia, this article examines the status of offenders' live, sworn evidence in the judiciary's ass…
Courtroom contrition: How do judges know
In most common-law jurisdictions world-wide, an offender’s remorse is a well-settled mitigating factor in sentencing, with judges obliged to take it into account when formulating an offender’s sentence. However, the importance of remorse in sentencing is matched by its mystery. Given remorse’s central role in the moral drama of the criminal justice process, it is crucial to investigate how remorse is evaluated, and also to understand the limitati…
The Problem of Story: Criminal Evidence, Affect, and Sense-making
Poignant, complex relationships exist between forensic evidence, people’s efforts to comprehend painful events, and the role of story-structures and storytelling. While there is intense public interest in criminal cases, and while law and criminology research acknowledges the centrality of narrative in criminal justice matters, significantly more research is needed to better understand the complicated intersections between criminal procedure, sen…
Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
The ‘poietic’ turn: Creative arts research in the academy
This article is concerned with creative arts practices as forms of knowing, and as forms capable of expressing this knowing. Our aim here is to make sense of the factors that have driven creative artists into the university over the last three decades, and to articulate how creative practices function in the present ‘research’ context. We argue that, after three decades of creative arts practice aligning to university notions of ‘research’, somet…
Imagining Closure as a Proprioceptive Problem
This essay aims to advance theorisations of ‘closure’ as an emotion concept, and to offer new understandings of the relationship between emotion and imagination, including how such a dynamic might be studied. In justice contexts, ‘closure’ operates clumsily as both a legal outcome and an emotional expectation, an imagined affective state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with people who work in, and who are caught up in, the justi…
How do researchers study emotion in and around law
Research on law and emotion has flourished in the last quarter of a century, underpinned by a range of theoretical and philosophical approaches. The field, while deeply interdisciplinary, originally developed around several disciplinary silos through the research of legal practitioners, jurisprudence theorists, social scientists and humanities scholars. Despite the field’s growth, methodological approaches have largely remained disparate. Researc…
Law and emotion: Methods and the Field
The workshop brought together 16 researchers (and 15 paper presentations) working in diverse disciplinary contexts -anthropology, creative practice, criminology, cultural studies, history, law, literary studies, media, psychology, sociology and sociolegal studies -all focusing on law and emotion.Emotion is present and significant throughout law, but methodological approaches to studying emotion in and around law remain disparate.The purpose of th…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law in Society and Culture (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)