{"title":"Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato, social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)","authors":"Fabio de Sa e Silva","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12620","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12620","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Starting in 2014, Brazilian politics was shaken up by the <i>lava jato (LJ) operation,</i> a law-centered anticorruption initiative. <i>LJ</i> unveiled a large corruption scheme in Brazil's national oil company Petrobras, which involved Petrobras directors, political party officials, and large construction companies. <i>LJ</i> was both disruptive and contentious. To some, it started a new chapter in Brazilian history, marked by greater respect for the “rule of law” and a collective “state of mind” concerned with “ending impunity” and building integrity in politics and businesses. To others, it contributed to undermining democracy and the rule of law, paving the way for an autocratic leader—the current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. This article sheds further light on those discussions by looking at <i>LJ</i> as a site of “legal consciousness” production. Empirically, the article focuses on conversations generated by lead <i>LJ</i> prosecutors on a major social media platform (Facebook) from 2017 to 2019. Considering this body of data, the article addresses the question: “When prosecutors and ‘the people’ talked about <i>LJ</i>, what did they talk about?” My findings support the more skeptical views of the operation. The exchanges between LJ prosecutors and their Facebook followers supported the co-production of a cultural schema averse to the “rule of law.” These findings have implications for both legal consciousness and anticorruption research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 3","pages":"344-368"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122631533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procedural justice for all? Legitimacy, just culture and legal anxiety in European civil aviation","authors":"John Woodlock","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents the results of survey-based research which explores if licensed aircraft maintenance engineers working in Norway, Sweden, and Portugal experience regulated “just culture” as procedural justice-infused processes when occurrence reporting in European Union (EU) civil aviation. Drawing on Tylerian procedural justice theory, the study finds that, perceived procedural justice is more strongly associated with legitimacy (perceived as support for rules and authority) than legal anxiety among the maintenance engineers. Country-based results reveal differences in engineers' legal experiences of occurrence reporting with perceived procedural justice strongest in Sweden and legal anxiety most influential in Portugal. The article contributes with a first exploration of “just culture” as a procedural justice-infused legal intervention to improve compliance to regulated occurrence reporting by negating legal anxiety in a European aviation context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 3","pages":"441-476"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12622","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91816074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding god in Somali legal politics. By Mark F. Massoud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $34.99 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Nafay Choudhury","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 3","pages":"500-501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91798576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against progress: Intellectual property and fundamental values in the internet age. By Jessica Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 448 pages, $90.00 hardcover/$30.00 paperback.","authors":"Reviewed by Or Cohen-Sasson","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 3","pages":"501-503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91786637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industry unbound: The inside story of privacy, data, and corporate power. By Ari EzraWaldman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp. $24.95 hardback","authors":"Reviewed by Erika M. Douglas","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12610","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"314-316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115821737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How parole boards judge remorse: Relational legal consciousness and the reproduction of carceral logic","authors":"Kathryne M. Young, Hannah Chimowitz","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12601","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One in seven people in prison in the US is serving a life sentence, and most of these “lifers” will someday be eligible for discretionary parole. But little is known about a key aspect of parole decision-making: remorse assessments. Because remorse is a complex emotion that arises from past wrongdoing and unfolds over time, assessing the sincerity of another person's remorse is neither a simple task of lie detection, nor of determining emotional authenticity. Instead, remorse involves numerous elements, including the relationship between a person's past and present motivations, beliefs, and affective states. To understand how parole board members make sense of remorse, we draw on in-depth interviews with parole commissioners in California, the state with the largest proportion of parole-eligible lifers. We find that commissioners' remorse assessments hinge on their perceptions of lifers' relationships to law and carceral logic. In this way, relational legal consciousness—specifically, second-order legal consciousness—functions as a stand-in for the impossible task of knowing another person's heart or mind. We distinguish relational from second-order legal consciousness and argue that understanding how they operate at parole hearings reveals the larger import of relational legal consciousness as a mechanism via which existing power relations are produced and reproduced, bridging the legal consciousness and law and emotion literatures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"237-260"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121210913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sorting sexuality: Expertise and the politics of legal classification. By Stefan Vogler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 280 pp. $30.00 paper","authors":"Edward Stein","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12609","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"313-314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126176864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privilege and punishment: How race and class matter in criminal court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $19.95 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Malcolm M. Feeley","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12614","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"321-324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130561423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity capitalists: The powerful insiders who exploit diversity to maintain inequality. By Nancy Leong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp. $28.00 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Meera E. Deo","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12608","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"311-312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121209060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living apart together: Legal protections for a new form of family. By Cynthia Grant Bowman. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $40.00 hardcover","authors":"Reviewed by Kaiponanea T. Matsumura","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12613","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 2","pages":"320-321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124944924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}