O trabalho apresenta um estudo acerca do Juizado Especial Cível, instituição do sistema de justiça responsável por apurar causas cíveis consideradas de menor complexidade (pequenas causas). Orientado pelos princípios de oralidade, simplicidade, informalidade, economia processual e celeridade, o juizado constitui a primeira experiência em nível nacional de informalização da justiça. Objetivando-se entender a estrutura e a dinâmica de funcionamento do juizado, dois recortes foram realizados: um cronológico e um sincrônico. No primeiro deles, é realizada uma análise da construção institucional do juizado. Partindo do contexto internacional em que se constitui o movimento de acesso à justiça, foram abordados o surgimento e a estruturação do juizado brasileiro. Sua implementação esteve condicionada à tensão entre dois elementos, que, em diferentes momentos, apareceram de modo mais ou menos acentuados: a busca de ampliação do acesso e o alívio da sobrecarga da justiça comum. Na década de 1980, o primeiro assume maior destaque; nos anos 1990, verifica-se uma inflexão e o elemento de alívio da carga judiciária progressivamente obscurece a dimensão do acesso. O segundo recorte foi a compreensão do funcionamento atual do juizado. Foram selecionadas duas unidades da cidade de São Paulo: uma situada na área central e outra na zona leste. A pesquisa observou a dinâmica de diferentes etapas processuais, atendo-se principalmente às audiências de conciliação. A análise focou a atuação dos conciliadores e dos juizes, o conteúdo das sessões e a relação entre as partes. Constatou-se que, em geral, as conciliações envolvem apenas negociações de valores, em detrimento de discussões de direito. Além disso, a assimetria das relações entre as partes destacou-se através do exame de elementos de desigualdade nos casos observados. Finalmente, apontou-se o Projeto Expressinho - resolução pré-processual de reclamações envolvendo empresas cadastradas - como exemplo das tendências postas em curso pelas propostas de reforma do sistema de justiça. / This work is a study about the small claims court, the Brazilian justice system institution responsible for claims considered to be less complex (small claims). Oriented by the principles of orality, simplicity, informality, economy of proceedings and celerity, the small claims courts is the first Brazilian national experience related to the justice informalization. In order to understand the small claims court structure and its functional dynamics, two approachs were designed: a chronological one and other on synchronical basis. The first approach is an analysis of the institutional construction of the small claims courts. After examining the international context in which the access to justice movement was constituted, the study then deals with the formation and structuring of the Brazilian small claims court. Its implementation has been conditioned by the tension between two elements that, at different times, arose in more or less greater degrees of intensity: the pursuit of wider access to justice and the relief of the regular court overload. In the 1980\'s, the first element was given more emphasis, and then in the 1990\'s, there was a modification, in which the element of regular court relief progressively obscured the dimension of access to justice. The second approach of the study consists in comprehending the current small claims court\'s operation. For that two small claims court units located in the city of São Paulo were selected: one downtown and another in an eastern district of the city. The research consisted of observation of the dynamics of different procedural stages, concentrating mainly on the conciliation audience. The analysis focuses on the conciliator\'s and judge\'s performance, the subjects of the sessions and the relation between the parties. It was verified that, generally, the conciliation involves just value negotiating, regardless of rights debate. Also, the assymmetry between the parties stands out by the examination of inequalities at the observed cases. Finally, the Project \"Expressinho\" - pre-process resolution of claims, involving some registered enterprises - was pointed out as an example to demonstrate some of the trends of the justice system reform proposals.

O trabalho apresenta um estudo acerca do Juizado Especial Cível, instituição do sistema de justiça responsável por apurar causas cíveis consideradas de menor complexidade (pequenas causas). Orientado pelos princípios de oralidade, simplicidade, informalidade, economia processual e celeridade, o juizado constitui a primeira experiência em nível nacional de informalização da justiça. Objetivando-se entender a estrutura e a dinâmica de funcionamento do juizado, dois recortes foram realizados: um cronológico e um sincrônico. No primeiro deles, é realizada uma análise da construção institucional do juizado. Partindo do contexto internacional em que se constitui o movimento de acesso à justiça, foram abordados o surgimento e a estruturação do juizado brasileiro. Sua implementação esteve condicionada à tensão entre dois elementos, que, em diferentes momentos, apareceram de modo mais ou menos acentuados: a busca de ampliação do acesso e o alívio da sobrecarga da justiça comum. Na década de 1980, o primeiro assume maior destaque; nos anos 1990, verifica-se uma inflexão e o elemento de alívio da carga judiciária progressivamente obscurece a dimensão do acesso. O segundo recorte foi a compreensão do funcionamento atual do juizado. Foram selecionadas duas unidades da cidade de São Paulo: uma situada na área central e outra na zona leste. A pesquisa observou a dinâmica de diferentes etapas processuais, atendo-se principalmente às audiências de conciliação. A análise focou a atuação dos conciliadores e dos juizes, o conteúdo das sessões e a relação entre as partes. Constatou-se que, em geral, as conciliações envolvem apenas negociações de valores, em detrimento de discussões de direito. Além disso, a assimetria das relações entre as partes destacou-se através do exame de elementos de desigualdade nos casos observados. Finalmente, apontou-se o Projeto Expressinho - resolução pré-processual de reclamações envolvendo empresas cadastradas - como exemplo das tendências postas em curso pelas propostas de reforma do sistema de justiça. / This work is a study about the small claims court, the Brazilian justice system institution responsible for claims considered to be less complex (small claims). Oriented by the principles of orality, simplicity, informality, economy of proceedings and celerity, the small claims courts is the first Brazilian national experience related to the justice informalization. In order to understand the small claims court structure and its functional dynamics, two approachs were designed: a chronological one and other on synchronical basis. The first approach is an analysis of the institutional construction of the small claims courts. After examining the international context in which the access to justice movement was constituted, the study then deals with the formation and structuring of the Brazilian small claims court. Its implementation has been conditioned by the tension between two elements that, at different times, arose in more or less greater degrees of intensity: the pursuit of wider access to justice and the relief of the regular court overload. In the 1980\'s, the first element was given more emphasis, and then in the 1990\'s, there was a modification, in which the element of regular court relief progressively obscured the dimension of access to justice. The second approach of the study consists in comprehending the current small claims court\'s operation. For that two small claims court units located in the city of São Paulo were selected: one downtown and another in an eastern district of the city. The research consisted of observation of the dynamics of different procedural stages, concentrating mainly on the conciliation audience. The analysis focuses on the conciliator\'s and judge\'s performance, the subjects of the sessions and the relation between the parties. It was verified that, generally, the conciliation involves just value negotiating, regardless of rights debate. Also, the assymmetry between the parties stands out by the examination of inequalities at the observed cases. Finally, the Project \"Expressinho\" - pre-process resolution of claims, involving some registered enterprises - was pointed out as an example to demonstrate some of the trends of the justice system reform proposals.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é explicar os mecanismos sociais das decisões judiciais. Em particular, a investigação centra-se no processo de tomadas de decisões de operadores do Direito no sistema de justiça juvenil em São Paulo. Busca-se, assim, verificar quais são os fatores determinantes da aplicação da medida socioeducativa de internação para adolescentes acusados de cometimento de ato infracional e o modo pelo qual se dá esse processo decisório. Desde a promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, em 1990, o sistema de justiça juvenil brasileiro passou a operar em um novo registro: as medidas socioeducativas passaram a se restringir a autores de infrações penais; e a medida de internação, em particular, a crimes cometidos com violência e/ou grave ameaça à pessoa. Mas a gravidade do ato infracional é de fato o principal preditor das decisões judiciais na justiça juvenil? Ou haveria outros fatores explicativos, como aqueles relacionados às características sociais dos adolescentes, às relações de poder inscritas nas interações sociais ou mesmo à estrutura organizacional dos tribunais? Na busca pela explicação dos mecanismos sociais dessas decisões judiciais, esta pesquisa propôs um desenho multimetodológico, integrando técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas para investigar os mecanismos das decisões e verificar os determinantes da aplicação da medida socioeducativa de internação em São Paulo. Assim, em um primeiro momento, as hipóteses citadas foram testadas por meio de modelos logísticos binomiais tendo a decisão sobre a internação como variável dependente em um cenário multivariado. Os resultados encontrados indicam um alto grau de proporcionalidade entre crime e pena, tendo os atos infracionais considerados mais graves os mais significativos efeitos sobre a probabilidade de internação; mas indicam, também, a reprodução de relações de poder - adolescentes usuários de drogas e que não trabalham nem estudam, mantidas as outras dimensões constantes, também têm maior chance de receber a medida socioeducativa de internação. Em seguida, a fim de explicar os mecanismos dos efeitos do tratamento estimados anteriormente, foram acompanhadas semanalmente as audiências de apresentação e de continuação e as oitivas informais no Fórum Brás, em São Paulo. Ao mesmo tempo em que se concluiu que as oitivas informais, centrais no processo decisório, ocorrem cerimonialmente e que as decisões são tomadas via documentos, o que explica o mecanismo de proporcionalidade encontrado anteriormente, pôde-se concluir que eventualmente os Promotores de Justiça \"voltam atrás\" de suas decisões quando há um rompimento na definição da situação, o que explica o mecanismo dos efeitos das características individuais dos adolescentes. / This research aims at investigating the social mechanisms of judicial decisions. It particularly focuses on the decision-making process of legal actors in the juvenile justice system in São Paulo. Thus, the research aims at verifying the determinants of the confinement disposition for juveniles who have been accused of a crime and the way which this decision is made by. Since the Child and Adolescent Statute was promulgated in 1990, the Brazilian juvenile justice system started working under new guidelines: dispositions are now restricted to offenders; and the confinement disposition is restricted to offenses committed with violence and/or with a threat to a person. But is the seriousness of the crime indeed the best predictor of judicial decisions? Or are there other explanatory factors, such as the ones related to the individual characteristics of the teenagers, to the power relations within social interactions, or even to the court organizational structure? Aiming at a mechanism-based explanation of these judicial decisions, this research has proposed a mixed-methods research design, integrating both quantitative and qualitative techniques to investigate mechanisms of the decision-making process and to verify the determinants of the confinement disposition in São Paulo. Thus, at first, the aforementioned hypotheses were tested with binary logistic models, presenting the decision concerning the confinement disposition as the dependent variable on a multivariable scenario. Results indicate a high degree of proportionality between crime and punishment, with the seriousness of the offenses having significant effects on the probability of confinement; but the results also indicate some reproduction of power relations - drug user youth and those who neither work nor study increase their odds of being more severely punished. After that, aiming at explaining the mechanisms of the treatment effects estimated beforehand, both judicial and informal hearings (at the State\'s Attorney office) were weekly observed at the juvenile court in São Paulo. While it was possible to conclude that the informal hearings are central to the decision-making process and occur ceremonially, with decisions being made by documents-consulting (which explains the proportionality mechanism), the research also found that the Attorneys often regret their decisions when there is a rupture of the definition of the situation. This explains the mechanism of the individual characteristics effects on juvenile sentencing.

Nos anos 90 era comum que a distinção entre o traficante e o usuário estivesse baseada nos artigos da antiga lei de drogas, ou seja, em criminalizar alguém por drogas por meio dos artigos 16 ou 12. Eram os próprios números dos artigos das leis que representavam socialmente e distinguiam um usuário (16) de um traficante de drogas (12) e, claro, o modo como à polícia poderia ou não incriminar alguém dentro do sistema de justiça criminal no Brasil. Após o ano de 2006, o Estado Brasileiro promulga a chamada Nova Lei de Drogas com o objetivo de deslocar o usuário de drogas para o sistema de saúde ao mesmo tempo em que aumenta a punição para os traficantes. Assim, este trabalho analisa as principais implicações da chamada nova lei de drogas lei 11.343 de 2006 desde a sua formulação no sistema político até a sua aplicação no sistema de justiça criminal tendo como problemática empírica geral o fenômeno da intensificação do encarceramento por tráfico de drogas no Brasil, sobretudo, após o advento da nova lei. Para tanto, a análise parte da formulação que o novo dispositivo de drogas no Congresso Nacional teve, dentre os seus principais objetivos, dispor: i) o fim da pena de prisão para o usuário de drogas; ii) o advento de um tratamento médico para o usuário; iii) o aumento da punição para o traficante mediante a expansão de grupos criminosos no início dos anos 2000, sobretudo, em São Paulo. Ou seja, está em jogo à modificação da representação social do traficante e do usuário que bifurca entre uma nova representação médico-social do usuário agora visto como um doente e objeto das instituições de saúde e assistência social e uma velha representação criminal do traficante como inimigo agora visto como um indivíduo perigoso e organizado. São estas duas figuras que engendram a formulação de um novo dispositivo de drogas com diferentes tipos de punições para a venda e o uso de drogas no Brasil nos anos 2000. Argumento que a introdução desse novo dispositivo chamado aqui de dispositivo médico-criminal de drogas produziu uma nova maneira de governar os usuários e traficantes de drogas e que trouxe, como uma das principais consequências, a intensificação da criminalização por tráfico de drogas e a rejeição do deslocamento do usuário para outro sistema que não o sistema de justiça criminal. Assim, demonstro que há uma nova maneira de administração estatal da droga no Brasil, qual é a sua história e como ela desenvolveu práticas no sistema de justiça criminal: como um copo meio vazio de médico e cheio de prisão. / In the 90s it was common that the distinction between the drug dealer and the user was based on the articles from the old drug law, in other words, criminalize someone for drugs through the articles \"16\" or \"12\". Were the very numbers of these articles that used to represent socially and distinguish a user (16) from a drug dealer (12) and, of course, the way the police could incriminate someone or not within the criminal justice system in Brazil. After 2006, the Brazilian State passed the so called New Drug Law in order to move the drug user to the health system while increasing the punishment for traffickers. Thus, this study analyzes the main implications of the new so called drug law - Law 11.343 of 2006 - since its formulation in the political system to its application in the criminal justice system, assuming as a general empirical problem the phenomenon of imprisonment and its increase for trafficking drugs in Brazil, especially after the advent of the new law. Therefore, the analysis assumes that the new drug device in National Congress had, among its main goals, to dispose: i) the end of a prison sentence for drug users; ii) the advent of a medical treatment for the user; iii) an increasing of the punishment for the trafficker due to the expansion of criminal groups in the early 2000s, especially in São Paulo. Ie, what is at stake is the changing in the social representation of drug dealers and users which leads to a bifurcation between a new medical and social representation of the user - now seen as \"sick\" and subject for health and social care institutions - and an old criminal representation of the dealer as an enemy - now seen as an individual \"dangerous and organized.\" These are the two figures that engender the development of a new drug device with different types of punishments for the sale and use of drugs in Brazil in the 2000s. I argue that the introduction of this new device called here as medical- criminal drug device - has produced a new way to govern users and drug dealers and it brought, as one of the main consequences, the increased criminalization of drug trafficking and the rejection of the user displacement to another system other than the criminal justice system. The research, therefore, seeks to first show how new ideas were developed in the formulation of a new drug device, secondly, what were the main implications of this device within the criminal justice system. Thus, I demonstrate that there is a new way of state administration of drugs in Brazil, what is your story and how it developed new practices in the criminal justice system: as a half empty glass of medicine and full of imprisonment.

Nos anos 90 era comum que a distinção entre o traficante e o usuário estivesse baseada nos artigos da antiga lei de drogas, ou seja, em criminalizar alguém por drogas por meio dos artigos 16 ou 12. Eram os próprios números dos artigos das leis que representavam socialmente e distinguiam um usuário (16) de um traficante de drogas (12) e, claro, o modo como à polícia poderia ou não incriminar alguém dentro do sistema de justiça criminal no Brasil. Após o ano de 2006, o Estado Brasileiro promulga a chamada Nova Lei de Drogas com o objetivo de deslocar o usuário de drogas para o sistema de saúde ao mesmo tempo em que aumenta a punição para os traficantes. Assim, este trabalho analisa as principais implicações da chamada nova lei de drogas lei 11.343 de 2006 desde a sua formulação no sistema político até a sua aplicação no sistema de justiça criminal tendo como problemática empírica geral o fenômeno da intensificação do encarceramento por tráfico de drogas no Brasil, sobretudo, após o advento da nova lei. Para tanto, a análise parte da formulação que o novo dispositivo de drogas no Congresso Nacional teve, dentre os seus principais objetivos, dispor: i) o fim da pena de prisão para o usuário de drogas; ii) o advento de um tratamento médico para o usuário; iii) o aumento da punição para o traficante mediante a expansão de grupos criminosos no início dos anos 2000, sobretudo, em São Paulo. Ou seja, está em jogo à modificação da representação social do traficante e do usuário que bifurca entre uma nova representação médico-social do usuário agora visto como um doente e objeto das instituições de saúde e assistência social e uma velha representação criminal do traficante como inimigo agora visto como um indivíduo perigoso e organizado. São estas duas figuras que engendram a formulação de um novo dispositivo de drogas com diferentes tipos de punições para a venda e o uso de drogas no Brasil nos anos 2000. Argumento que a introdução desse novo dispositivo chamado aqui de dispositivo médico-criminal de drogas produziu uma nova maneira de governar os usuários e traficantes de drogas e que trouxe, como uma das principais consequências, a intensificação da criminalização por tráfico de drogas e a rejeição do deslocamento do usuário para outro sistema que não o sistema de justiça criminal. Assim, demonstro que há uma nova maneira de administração estatal da droga no Brasil, qual é a sua história e como ela desenvolveu práticas no sistema de justiça criminal: como um copo meio vazio de médico e cheio de prisão. / In the 90s it was common that the distinction between the drug dealer and the user was based on the articles from the old drug law, in other words, criminalize someone for drugs through the articles \"16\" or \"12\". Were the very numbers of these articles that used to represent socially and distinguish a user (16) from a drug dealer (12) and, of course, the way the police could incriminate someone or not within the criminal justice system in Brazil. After 2006, the Brazilian State passed the so called New Drug Law in order to move the drug user to the health system while increasing the punishment for traffickers. Thus, this study analyzes the main implications of the new so called drug law - Law 11.343 of 2006 - since its formulation in the political system to its application in the criminal justice system, assuming as a general empirical problem the phenomenon of imprisonment and its increase for trafficking drugs in Brazil, especially after the advent of the new law. Therefore, the analysis assumes that the new drug device in National Congress had, among its main goals, to dispose: i) the end of a prison sentence for drug users; ii) the advent of a medical treatment for the user; iii) an increasing of the punishment for the trafficker due to the expansion of criminal groups in the early 2000s, especially in São Paulo. Ie, what is at stake is the changing in the social representation of drug dealers and users which leads to a bifurcation between a new medical and social representation of the user - now seen as \"sick\" and subject for health and social care institutions - and an old criminal representation of the dealer as an enemy - now seen as an individual \"dangerous and organized.\" These are the two figures that engender the development of a new drug device with different types of punishments for the sale and use of drugs in Brazil in the 2000s. I argue that the introduction of this new device called here as medical- criminal drug device - has produced a new way to govern users and drug dealers and it brought, as one of the main consequences, the increased criminalization of drug trafficking and the rejection of the user displacement to another system other than the criminal justice system. The research, therefore, seeks to first show how new ideas were developed in the formulation of a new drug device, secondly, what were the main implications of this device within the criminal justice system. Thus, I demonstrate that there is a new way of state administration of drugs in Brazil, what is your story and how it developed new practices in the criminal justice system: as a half empty glass of medicine and full of imprisonment.

This research assessed the perceived and actual roles of Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in their community and in working with offenders and their families in relation to the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Additionally, the research study evaluated this issue on the local level in an attempt to ascertain whether FBOs still do what they have historically been perceived to do or whether their involvement with the CJS has shifted in any way. Particularly, the research study also examined perceptions of staff members from FBOs regarding services and support provided for families of offenders. The sample was selected using a combination of convenience and snowball sampling. Group sizes ranged from 2-5 participants. A total of 14 participants interacted in the focus groups. Each focus group lasted approximately one hour. All focus groups were recorded using a digital audio recording device, and transcriptions of the focus groups were prepared. The transcripts were prepared using a combination of edited and intelligent transcription techniques. Researchers reviewed the transcriptions for recurring themes. Twenty-four initial themes were generated. Researchers then reviewed the themes for redundancy which resulted in 10 themes being identified. The transcripts were then coded based on the 10 revised themes. These themes focused on issues related to the perceived and real roles of FBOs in relation to the Criminal Justice System. As expected, the researchers found that FBO programming difficulties and concerns (f = 65) and misperception and lack of church involvement in the lives of offenders and the CJS (f = 50) were the most recurring themes. Miscommunication and lack of connection between the CJS and community was found to be the third most recurring theme (f = 15), followed closely by lack of reunification of offenders with their families (f = 14). Perceptions of participants such as clergy and mental health practitioners confirmed the researcher’s expectations that offenders often express deep anxiety and concern over being separated from their families. Thus, current programming efforts may reflect a lack of emphasis on services designed to rejoin offenders with their families or reintegrate them in family systems based on participants’ perceptions. Analysis of the data is ongoing. Researchers will return to the data to further discuss theme coding and to determine if additional themes emerge. All identified themes will be further assessed for inter-rater reliability.

<p>Den här uppsatsen behandlar undervisningen i Lag och rätt på högstadiet. Syftet med min uppsats är att undersöka några samhällskunskapslärares syn på sin undervisning i Lag och rätt. Ställda forskningsfrågor är i korthet vad de väljer att undervisa om, hur dem väljer att undervisa om det och deras förhållande till läroboken. I uppsatsen undersöks även om det är någon skillnad mellan mer respektive mindre erfarna lärares syn på lag och rätt undervisningen.</p><p>Jag har gjort en kvalitativ studie med fyra stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer. Två intervjuer med två mindre erfarna samhällskunskapslärare och två intervjuer med två mer erfarna samhällskunskapslärare. Jag har även gjort en mindre jämförande analys mellan vad samhällskunskapslärarna undervisar om i förhållande till läroboken de använder sig av.</p><p>Mitt resultat pekar på att de fyra samhällskunskapslärarna har en rätt så likartad bild över vad som är viktigt att undervisa om i Lag och rätt och sättet att undervisa på. Dock tycker jag mig kunna tyda att de två mer erfarna samhällskunskapslärarna har en vidare syn på området lag och rätt. Samtliga väljer att ha läroboken som en grund att stå på och gemensamt för dem är att de förhåller sig till läroboken avsnitten då läroboken behandlar processen från att ett brott begås till åtal väcks, hur en rättegång går till och olika sorters straff.</p> / <p>This paper deals with the teaching of Justice system in high school. The purpose of my essay is to explore some social studies teachers' views on their teaching of the law. My research questions are about what they choose to teach, how they choose to teach about it and their relationship to the textbook. The essay also examines whether there is any difference between more and less experienced teachers' views on the justice system.</p><p>I have made a qualitative study of four semi-structured interviews: two interviews with two less experienced social studies teachers and two interviews with two more experienced social studies teachers. I have also made a small comparative analysis between what social studies teachers teach according to the textbook they use.</p><p>My results indicate that the four social studies teachers I interviewed have a fairly similar picture of what is important to teach about the Law and Order and the way they teach. However, I seems like that the two more experienced social studies teachers have a broader view of the law area. The four teachers chose to have the textbook as a foundation and common to all is that they relate to the textbook in parts when the textbook deals with the process from when an offense have been committed to the prosecution, the trial, and different kinds of punishment.</p>

The partisan election of state judges and costly litigation make the civil justice system in the United States vulnerable because they undermine the values upon which the system was founded. The public’s trust that courts administer justice fairly and impartially is questioned by partisan elections funded by large corporations. Moreover, with the advent of electronically stored information, and the market’s control over the price of legal resources, access to the civil justice system is limited by wealth. This thesis seeks to address these problems and analyze the solutions that are most effective and comprehensive.

Den här uppsatsen behandlar undervisningen i Lag och rätt på högstadiet. Syftet med min uppsats är att undersöka några samhällskunskapslärares syn på sin undervisning i Lag och rätt. Ställda forskningsfrågor är i korthet vad de väljer att undervisa om, hur dem väljer att undervisa om det och deras förhållande till läroboken. I uppsatsen undersöks även om det är någon skillnad mellan mer respektive mindre erfarna lärares syn på lag och rätt undervisningen. Jag har gjort en kvalitativ studie med fyra stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer. Två intervjuer med två mindre erfarna samhällskunskapslärare och två intervjuer med två mer erfarna samhällskunskapslärare. Jag har även gjort en mindre jämförande analys mellan vad samhällskunskapslärarna undervisar om i förhållande till läroboken de använder sig av. Mitt resultat pekar på att de fyra samhällskunskapslärarna har en rätt så likartad bild över vad som är viktigt att undervisa om i Lag och rätt och sättet att undervisa på. Dock tycker jag mig kunna tyda att de två mer erfarna samhällskunskapslärarna har en vidare syn på området lag och rätt. Samtliga väljer att ha läroboken som en grund att stå på och gemensamt för dem är att de förhåller sig till läroboken avsnitten då läroboken behandlar processen från att ett brott begås till åtal väcks, hur en rättegång går till och olika sorters straff. / This paper deals with the teaching of Justice system in high school. The purpose of my essay is to explore some social studies teachers' views on their teaching of the law. My research questions are about what they choose to teach, how they choose to teach about it and their relationship to the textbook. The essay also examines whether there is any difference between more and less experienced teachers' views on the justice system. I have made a qualitative study of four semi-structured interviews: two interviews with two less experienced social studies teachers and two interviews with two more experienced social studies teachers. I have also made a small comparative analysis between what social studies teachers teach according to the textbook they use. My results indicate that the four social studies teachers I interviewed have a fairly similar picture of what is important to teach about the Law and Order and the way they teach. However, I seems like that the two more experienced social studies teachers have a broader view of the law area. The four teachers chose to have the textbook as a foundation and common to all is that they relate to the textbook in parts when the textbook deals with the process from when an offense have been committed to the prosecution, the trial, and different kinds of punishment.

Il est reconnu, en droit, qu'un juge est fondé de s'appuyer sur les règles jurisprudentielles. En fait, il peut s'y appuyer et doit même s'y conformer: ces règles qui sont définies dans des décisions font autorité. Il doit respecter la règle du précédent et rester sur la décision (« stare decisis »). Selon cette conception, la jurisprudence s'accumule au fil du temps: de plus en plus de décisions peuvent être citées à l'appui d'un point de droit. Mais en pratique, le résultat est différent. La jurisprudence citée change. Le droit évolue. Et les jugements, un jour importants, finissent par être oubliés. Éventuellement, ils sont remplacés par la jurisprudence plus jeune. Dans ce mémoire, une approche jurimétrique est utilisée pour évaluer le rythme auquel le droit évolue. C'est-à-dire que des calculs statistiques sont effectués à l'aide de programmes informatiques afin de comparer, d'un échantillon à un autre, le rythme auquel le droit change. De façon générale, ils permettent de comptabiliser l'âge des citations dans les jugements et établissent des moyennes. Ils permettent d'établir l'âge de demi-vie des jugements et offrent, ainsi, une mesure du rythme auquel le droit évolue. / It is widely known, in law, that a judge uses mIes established in precedents for argumentation. In fact, he relies on it and has to respect the mIes that are already defined : case law materials are authoritative. He is to respect precedent law and stay on the decision (« stare decisis »). According to this conception, the available case law collection grows through time : more and more decisions can be cited to interpret a particular point of law. But reality shows a different picture. The case law that gets cited changes. Law evolves. And the judgments that were once important are, eventually, forgotten. In the end, they are replaced by recent developpements. In this thesis, jurimetrics is used to evaluate the rythm to which law evolves. Statistics are computed by using automated software in order to compare, from one sample to another, the rythm to which cited decisions change. Software is used to compute the age of citations in judgments and establish averages. It is thus possible to evaluate the half-life of case law judgments and, therefore, provide with an idea of the rythm to which law evolves. / "Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de maîtrise en droit option Droit des technologies de l'information"