Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

‘But, today, you’ve got to be beyond reasonable doubt’: The discursive negotiation of judicial directions in mock-jury deliberations in England and Wales

Drawing on a corpus of mock-jury deliberations from England and Wales comprising 94,000 words of transcript and 10 hours of video data from 132 participants, this study employs discourse analysis – specifically interactional analysis and narrative analysis – to examine how mock jurors interpret, negotiate, and recontex...