Abstract
In this chapter, I explore how legal consciousness may be influenced by television court shows. I try to bridge a gap between studies in the humanities and socio-legal studies as I account for some theories about why people go to court, and attempt to answer the question of whether television courts work as motivating factors for people to turn to address specific problems.
Many thanks to Sara Steinert Borella, Priska Gisler and Caroline Wiedmer for their helpful comments.
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Television shows
Divorce Court, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 1999–2008
Judge Greg Mathis (17 May 2007, 16 December 2007) Blackpearl Productions, 1999–2008
Judge Joe Brown, CBS Paramount Television, 1998–2008
Judge Judy (2008) ‘Davenport vs Filkin’, Judge Judy, Second to None (DVD), CBS Paramount Television, 1996–2008
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Krakus, A. (2012). I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions. In: Gisler, P., Borella, S.S., Wiedmer, C. (eds) Intersections of Law and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-28500-3_4
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