Sharyn Roach Anleu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 270629 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sharyn Roach Anleu |
| NOMBRES | Sharyn Roach |
| APELLIDO | Anleu |
| FIRMA | ANLEU S R |
| AFILIACIONES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7892-0099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Law and emotion
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…
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…
Introduction. Empirical research with judicial professionals and courts
The articles in this special issue focus on the methodological and practical challenges of undertaking empirical research in judicial and/or court settings. They arose from a workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law held on 23-24 June 2022 which discussed the empirical strategies to access and conduct research with judicial officers and the research methods and kinds of data used, including interviews, surveys, court obser…
Empirical research with judicial officers
This article examines the history of a large multi-year, national empirical research project into the Australian judiciary undertaken by the two co-authors. We consider the different phases of the project, discuss what worked and what did not, and offer some suggestions for future research involving judicial officers and their courts. The research project entailed negotiating collaboration with and access to judicial officers and court staff on a…
Complex data and simple instructions
Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic include the generation of new norms and shifting expectations about everyday, ordinary behaviour, management of the self, and social interaction. Central to the amalgam of new norms is the way information and instructions are communicated, often in the form of simple images and icons in posters and signs that are widespread in public settings. This article combines two sociological concerns - social control and …
Reproductive rights at home? Prohibiting telehealth abortion in South Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, as governments urged citizens to limit their movements and socially isolate as a protective strategy, the home became a place layered with new meanings. Feminists have long challenged characterisations of the home as a sanctuary. Such characterisations and feminist claims against them took on new complexity and significance during the pandemic. This article investigates access to abortion care i…
Judging and Emotion
Conclusion
The Law Multiple
Irene van Oorschot (2021) The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice Cambridge University Press, 250 pp, ISBN 978-1-108-49480-9, £70 (hbk)
Feminist judging in lower courts
Much of the literature on feminist judging concentrates on judges and judging in appellate and superior courts. This article extends that literature by investigating whether and how feminist judging manifests in lower courts, which deal with the vast bulk of criminal offences and civil claims. It does so through analysis of transcripts of non‐trial criminal proceedings in Australian magistrates courts, focusing on judicial practices rather than t…
Loving Justice
Judicial Ethics, Everyday Work, and Emotion Management
Judicial ethics and conduct guides emphasize dignity, decorum, patience, and courtesy, contributing to an understanding of judging as rational, detached, and unemotional. However, these are also interactional capacities, implying the presence of emotion and emotion work. Empirical research finds that judicial officers express considerable awareness of the need for judicial emotional capacities and emotion work and undertake a range of strategies …
A Sociological Perspective on Emotion Work and Judging
Judicial work requires judicial officers to manage their own emotions and related conduct, as well as to anticipate, interpret, respond to and manage emotions and behaviours of others, most visibly in the interaction order of the courtroom. A detailed, sociological analysis of judicial interview data reveals the ways judicial officers themselves understand, manage and use emotion in their everyday work. Judicial emotion work is more than a purely…
Introducing an Interdisciplinary Frontier to Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work
This special issue of Oñati Socio-legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) held in May 2018. This issue builds on the growing critique of the dispassionate ideal of judicial work, combining original theoretical insights with imaginative empirical analyses to extend the understanding of e…
Judging in lower courts
Recent theorising about feminist judging has concentrated on appellate courts and their judgments. This paper develops a conceptualisation of feminist judging in lower, first instance courts, which are dominated by high case volume and limited time for each matter, with decisions given orally and ex tempore rather than in elaborated written judgments. Through careful accounts of the philosophy, goals and practices of conventional as well as newer…
Observing judicial work and emotions
Observation is an important component of research to examine complex social settings and is well-established for studying courtroom dynamics and judicial behaviour. However, the many activities occurring at once and the multiple participants, lay and professional, make it impossible for a sole researcher to observe and understand everything occurring in the courtroom. This article reports on the use of two researchers to undertake court observati…
Comparación de mujeres y hombres de experiencias en la judicatura australiana
Uno de los cambios más significativos que han tenido lugar en la última mitad del siglo veinte es la participación de las mujeres en profesiones de tradición masculina, incluyendo la judicatura. Sin embargo, aunque las cantidades de mujeres estén en aumento, ellas aún constituyen sólo una pequeña proporción de la judicatura. Este artículo de publicación trata de dos aspectos específicos de las experiencias y actitudes de las mujeres en relación c…
Job satisfaction in the judiciary
This article examines job satisfaction among judicial officers in Australia. Increasing numbers of women have entered the judiciary and their job satisfaction is a key route to understanding their experiences of this elite role. This paper applies concepts of job satisfaction to the judiciary and investigates gender differences. Data from two national surveys demonstrate that women and men across the Australian judiciary express very high levels …
Performing Authority
In the courtroom legal authority must be performed by the presiding judicial officer. It is also a social situation where information and emotions must be managed in face-to-face interactions. This paper investigates how magistrates perform their authority in the delivery of decisions in open court. An observational study of criminal cases in Australian lower courts shows that magistrates communicate sentencing decisions in a distinct manner. Mag…
In-Court Judicial Behaviours, Gender and Legitimacy
Two important recent developments are the increasing gender diversity of the judiciary and a turn towards newer forms of judging that rely on more direct judicial interaction with court users. Empirical research into the views and attitudes of men and women in the Australian judiciary reveals a strong shared commitment to core judicial values such as impartiality as the most essential qualities for judicial work. Slightly larger proportions of wo…
Entering the Australian Judiciary
There is considerable attention to increasing judicial diversity along a range of dimensions, in particular, gender. Women remain underrepresented in many courts, especially at the higher levels of the judiciary. A comprehensive socio‐legal study of the Australian judiciary compares experiences and attitudes of women who have become judicial officers at different levels of the court hierarchy. Understanding their personal and professional backgro…
Conducting Law and Society Research
Performing Impartiality
The demeanor exhibited by a judge is a key element in criminal proceedings, especially in direct interactions with the defendant, defense representatives, and prosecutors. The judicial demeanor(s) displayed must meet the normative confines of the judicial role—primarily impartiality—within the practical constraints of long case lists, when interactions are subject to considerable time pressure. Drawing on findings from an extensive national court…
Gender, Judging and Job Satisfaction
The professionalization of Australian magistrates
Over the past 20 years or so, magistrates courts in Australia have undergone significant change, in particular, separation from the public service and credentialization, indicating greater professionalization. One important reason for separating the magistracy from the public service was to establish magistrates' independence as judicial officers, a distinctive form of professional autonomy. Drawing on a national study of magistrates and their co…
Getting Through the List
This article examines the judgecraft required when judicial officers actively manage the time pressures created by long and unpredictable case lists. It considers the implications of this time management for the legitimate exercise of judicial authority. In particular, we focus on the strategy of altering the temporal sequence of the list by standing matters down and recalling them later in the list. This strategy, especially when initiated by th…
Performing Impartiality
The demeanor exhibited by a judge is a key element in criminal proceedings, especially in direct interactions with the defendant, defense representatives, and prosecutors. The judicial demeanor(s) displayed must meet the normative confines of the judicial role—primarily impartiality—within the practical constraints of long case lists, when interactions are subject to considerable time pressure. Drawing on findings from an extensive national court…
Magistrates, Magistrates Courts, and Social Change
Relatively little attention has been paid to lower courts’ capacity to bring about social change, despite the fact that most citizens who come into contact with the judicial system will have their case considered (and most likely only considered) by these courts. Often these citizens experience a range of problems that are social in origin, including precarious employment, welfare dependence, financial hardship, and various health problems, inclu…
Surrogacy
Recent cases in the United States and Australia have catapulted surrogacy into the forefront of debates and public policy regarding new procreative technologies, even though gestating and birthing a baby for another woman does not necessarily involve artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization. Feminists have condemned commercial surrogacy because it borders on baby selling and exploits women. Similar criticism has appeared in the mass medi…
Magistrates' Everyday Work and Emotional Labour
The concept of emotional labour describes the management of emotions as part of everyday work performance. Much of the research in this field has been in relation to jobs in the service sector where (mostly female) employees are required to shape their own feelings in order to make customers or clients feel at ease, comfortable or happy. There has been relatively little attention paid to the importance of emotional labour in professional occupati…
Sociologists confront human rights
This paper examines sociologists' current interest in the topics of human rights and globalisation. Some descnbe a world where everyone has rights (or at least a modicum of rights), because we are all human, and we all interact and communicate with one another in a global environment which will (it is argued), result in greater toleration and recognition of differences. In contrast, this paper emphasises the political instability of rights in a w…
Job satisfaction in the judiciary
This article examines job satisfaction among judicial officers in Australia. Increasing numbers of women have entered the judiciary and their job satisfaction is a key route to understanding their experiences of this elite role. This paper applies concepts of job satisfaction to the judiciary and investigates gender differences. Data from two national surveys demonstrate that women and men across the Australian judiciary express very high levels …
Reinforcing Gender Norms
Surrogate motherhood agreements have stimulated widespread public, governmental and academic debate. Much ot the discussion focuses on commercial contracts which are generally condemned, whereas more support exists for altruistic agreements. The paper argues that the distinction between commercial and altruistic surrogacy is neither self-evident nor natural. By examining two recent surrogacy cases it concludes that the distinction is based on gen…
Gender, Judging and Job Satisfaction
Entering the Australian Judiciary
There is considerable attention to increasing judicial diversity along a range of dimensions, in particular, gender. Women remain underrepresented in many courts, especially at the higher levels of the judiciary. A comprehensive socio‐legal study of the Australian judiciary compares experiences and attitudes of women who have become judicial officers at different levels of the court hierarchy. Understanding their personal and professional backgro…
The professionalization of Australian magistrates
Over the past 20 years or so, magistrates courts in Australia have undergone significant change, in particular, separation from the public service and credentialization, indicating greater professionalization. One important reason for separating the magistracy from the public service was to establish magistrates' independence as judicial officers, a distinctive form of professional autonomy. Drawing on a national study of magistrates and their co…
The Legal Profession in the United States and Australia
Over the past 2 decades, the legal profession in the United States and Australia has undergone critical changes including growth, specialization, the entry of women, increasing salaried employment, and the relaxation on advertising constraints. Many argue that these developments undermine the profession's autonomy, self-regulation, and control over the terms and organization of work and suggest that the law is becoming deprofessionalized. By acce…
The Professionalisation of Social Work? A Case Study of Three Organisational Settings
This case study of social workers employed in three organisations suggests that conflict and tension arising from specific bureaucratic requirements combined with professional workers' claims for autonomy are not the invariable or inevitable outcome of organisational employment. Indeed, by defining spheres of competence and exclusive jurisdiction, organisational guide-lines protect social workers from encroachment by, and competition with members…
Men and Women Lawyers in in-House Legal Departments
Despite increasing numbers of women lawyers, gender segregation within the legal profession in the United States continues. The present article examines interorganizational differences in the employment of 34 men and 34 women lawyers in 12 in-house legal departments that varied by size and industry in corporations located in the northeast United States. There were differences among the firms with respect to the number, position, and salary of men…
Conducting Law and Society Research
Professional status at midcareer
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…
Observing judicial work and emotions
Observation is an important component of research to examine complex social settings and is well-established for studying courtroom dynamics and judicial behaviour. However, the many activities occurring at once and the multiple participants, lay and professional, make it impossible for a sole researcher to observe and understand everything occurring in the courtroom. This article reports on the use of two researchers to undertake court observati…
Performing Authority
In the courtroom legal authority must be performed by the presiding judicial officer. It is also a social situation where information and emotions must be managed in face-to-face interactions. This paper investigates how magistrates perform their authority in the delivery of decisions in open court. An observational study of criminal cases in Australian lower courts shows that magistrates communicate sentencing decisions in a distinct manner. Mag…
Complex data and simple instructions
Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic include the generation of new norms and shifting expectations about everyday, ordinary behaviour, management of the self, and social interaction. Central to the amalgam of new norms is the way information and instructions are communicated, often in the form of simple images and icons in posters and signs that are widespread in public settings. This article combines two sociological concerns - social control and …
Judging in lower courts
Recent theorising about feminist judging has concentrated on appellate courts and their judgments. This paper develops a conceptualisation of feminist judging in lower, first instance courts, which are dominated by high case volume and limited time for each matter, with decisions given orally and ex tempore rather than in elaborated written judgments. Through careful accounts of the philosophy, goals and practices of conventional as well as newer…
Third‐Party Policing and Insurance
This paper examines a relatively new trend: market‐based crime prevention. The insurance firm is an exemplary agent of this new type of crime prevention. Although the traditional focus of insurance has been on losses sustained after a crime or other catastrophe, we explore the shift from reactive to proactive crime management by the insurance industry. This trend is part of a more general decentralization of policing, from state‐controlled agents…
Critiquing the Law
New Procreative Technologies, Donor Gametes and the Law's Response
The availability of artificial insemination by donor (AID) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) has generated considerable ethical, moral, social and legal discussion. Commonwealth and state government inquiries all recommend legislation regulating the experimental and clinical application of new procreative technologies and Victoria and South Australia have passed such laws, A central aspect of the debate regards donated gametes and the status of ch…
New Procreative Technologies, Donor Gametes and the Law's Response
The availability of artificial insemination by donor (AID) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) has generated considerable ethical, moral, social and legal discussion. Commonwealth and state government inquiries all recommend legislation regulating the experimental and clinical application of new procreative technologies and Victoria and South Australia have passed such laws, A central aspect of the debate regards donated gametes and the status of ch…
Men and Women Lawyers in in-House Legal Departments
Despite increasing numbers of women lawyers, gender segregation within the legal profession in the United States continues. The present article examines interorganizational differences in the employment of 34 men and 34 women lawyers in 12 in-house legal departments that varied by size and industry in corporations located in the northeast United States. There were differences among the firms with respect to the number, position, and salary of men…
Reinforcing Gender Norms
Surrogate motherhood agreements have stimulated widespread public, governmental and academic debate. Much ot the discussion focuses on commercial contracts which are generally condemned, whereas more support exists for altruistic agreements. The paper argues that the distinction between commercial and altruistic surrogacy is neither self-evident nor natural. By examining two recent surrogacy cases it concludes that the distinction is based on gen…
Critiquing the Law
Surrogacy
Recent cases in the United States and Australia have catapulted surrogacy into the forefront of debates and public policy regarding new procreative technologies, even though gestating and birthing a baby for another woman does not necessarily involve artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization. Feminists have condemned commercial surrogacy because it borders on baby selling and exploits women. Similar criticism has appeared in the mass medi…
The Legal Profession in the United States and Australia
Over the past 2 decades, the legal profession in the United States and Australia has undergone critical changes including growth, specialization, the entry of women, increasing salaried employment, and the relaxation on advertising constraints. Many argue that these developments undermine the profession's autonomy, self-regulation, and control over the terms and organization of work and suggest that the law is becoming deprofessionalized. By acce…
Recruitment Practice and Women Lawyers' Employment
Despite women's entry into the legal profession differences remain in men's and women's employment opportunities. This paper examines the way organizational practices affect the recruitment of men and women lawyers by comparing twelve in-house legal departments in manufacturing and financial services corporations. On the whole, women lawyers are less likely to be employed in the former. This pattern can be explained by the different requirements …
The Professionalisation of Social Work? A Case Study of Three Organisational Settings
This case study of social workers employed in three organisations suggests that conflict and tension arising from specific bureaucratic requirements combined with professional workers' claims for autonomy are not the invariable or inevitable outcome of organisational employment. Indeed, by defining spheres of competence and exclusive jurisdiction, organisational guide-lines protect social workers from encroachment by, and competition with members…
Professional status at midcareer
Sociologists confront human rights
This paper examines sociologists' current interest in the topics of human rights and globalisation. Some descnbe a world where everyone has rights (or at least a modicum of rights), because we are all human, and we all interact and communicate with one another in a global environment which will (it is argued), result in greater toleration and recognition of differences. In contrast, this paper emphasises the political instability of rights in a w…
Third‐Party Policing and Insurance
This paper examines a relatively new trend: market‐based crime prevention. The insurance firm is an exemplary agent of this new type of crime prevention. Although the traditional focus of insurance has been on losses sustained after a crime or other catastrophe, we explore the shift from reactive to proactive crime management by the insurance industry. This trend is part of a more general decentralization of policing, from state‐controlled agents…
The Legal Regulation of Medical Science
Recent developments in reproductive technology have stimulated widespread public debate and controversy, especially regarding the social, ethical, moral, and legal implications of in vitro fertilization and human embryo experimentation. These issues have received a great deal of public attention in Australia over the past two decades. Some jurisdictions have implemented legislation to regulate and prohibit aspects of medical science. This discuss…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Welcome to this special thematic issue of the Journal of Sociology, which brings together a cross-national series of contributions to the topic `Flexibility: Families, Self and Work'. The articles in this issue offer a variety of approaches to, and appreciation of, contemporary changes to the boundaries between and within families, paid and unpaid work, labour markets, gendered identities and social policy. The diversity and depth of articles in …
Editors’ Statement for Journal of Sociology
Magistrates' Everyday Work and Emotional Labour
The concept of emotional labour describes the management of emotions as part of everyday work performance. Much of the research in this field has been in relation to jobs in the service sector where (mostly female) employees are required to shape their own feelings in order to make customers or clients feel at ease, comfortable or happy. There has been relatively little attention paid to the importance of emotional labour in professional occupati…
Abortion
Getting Through the List
This article examines the judgecraft required when judicial officers actively manage the time pressures created by long and unpredictable case lists. It considers the implications of this time management for the legitimate exercise of judicial authority. In particular, we focus on the strategy of altering the temporal sequence of the list by standing matters down and recalling them later in the list. This strategy, especially when initiated by th…
Magistrates, Magistrates Courts, and Social Change
Relatively little attention has been paid to lower courts’ capacity to bring about social change, despite the fact that most citizens who come into contact with the judicial system will have their case considered (and most likely only considered) by these courts. Often these citizens experience a range of problems that are social in origin, including precarious employment, welfare dependence, financial hardship, and various health problems, inclu…
The professionalization of Australian magistrates
Over the past 20 years or so, magistrates courts in Australia have undergone significant change, in particular, separation from the public service and credentialization, indicating greater professionalization. One important reason for separating the magistracy from the public service was to establish magistrates' independence as judicial officers, a distinctive form of professional autonomy. Drawing on a national study of magistrates and their co…
Gender, Judging and Job Satisfaction
Performing Impartiality
The demeanor exhibited by a judge is a key element in criminal proceedings, especially in direct interactions with the defendant, defense representatives, and prosecutors. The judicial demeanor(s) displayed must meet the normative confines of the judicial role—primarily impartiality—within the practical constraints of long case lists, when interactions are subject to considerable time pressure. Drawing on findings from an extensive national court…
Conducting Law and Society Research
In-Court Judicial Behaviours, Gender and Legitimacy
Two important recent developments are the increasing gender diversity of the judiciary and a turn towards newer forms of judging that rely on more direct judicial interaction with court users. Empirical research into the views and attitudes of men and women in the Australian judiciary reveals a strong shared commitment to core judicial values such as impartiality as the most essential qualities for judicial work. Slightly larger proportions of wo…
Entering the Australian Judiciary
There is considerable attention to increasing judicial diversity along a range of dimensions, in particular, gender. Women remain underrepresented in many courts, especially at the higher levels of the judiciary. A comprehensive socio‐legal study of the Australian judiciary compares experiences and attitudes of women who have become judicial officers at different levels of the court hierarchy. Understanding their personal and professional backgro…
Performing Authority
In the courtroom legal authority must be performed by the presiding judicial officer. It is also a social situation where information and emotions must be managed in face-to-face interactions. This paper investigates how magistrates perform their authority in the delivery of decisions in open court. An observational study of criminal cases in Australian lower courts shows that magistrates communicate sentencing decisions in a distinct manner. Mag…
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