Ombudsmen and ADR: A Comparative Study of Informal Justice in Europe

Ombudsmen and ADR: A Comparative Study of Informal Justice in Europe
ISBN-10
3319788078
ISBN-13
9783319788074
Category
Social Science
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2018-05-02
Publisher
Springer
Author
Naomi Creutzfeldt

Description

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system? Drawing on original data with British and German users of Ombudsmen— an important institution of informal justice, Naomi Creutzfeldt offers a nuanced comparative answer to this question. In so doing, she takes current debates on procedural justice and legal consciousness forward. This book explores consciousness around ‘alternatives’ to formal legality and asks how situated assumptions about law and fairness guide people's understandings of the informal justice system. Creutzfeldt shows that the everyday relationship that people have with the informal justice system is shaped by their experiences and expectations of the formal legal system and its agents. This book is an innovative theoretical and empirical statement about the future prospects for informal justice in Europe.

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