Fábio Ferraz de Almeida

Bio: Fábio Ferraz de Almeida is an academic researcher from University of Jyväskylä. The author has contributed to research in topics: Suspect & Criminal justice. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 10 publications receiving 13 citations. Previous affiliations of Fábio Ferraz de Almeida include Loughborough University & Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora.

Speaking out against everyday sexism : Gender and epistemics in accusations of “mansplaining”

Abstract: In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as “natural” conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referrin...

Police interviews with suspects in police stations in England

Abstract: This thesis is about police interviews with suspects in England. The suspects in these interviews have been arrested in connection with their involvement in relatively low-level offences. They comprise incidents ranging from threatening behaviour, harassment and breach of bail conditions to criminal damage, theft and assault. They are certainly not the remarkable and dramatic cases which appear in the front pages of the newspapers and fill television programmes over the week; nonetheless they are hugely important to the fabric of law-in-action in our society, as they represent the most ordinary and mundane legal work in the context of the criminal justice system in England. I draw upon a sample of 27 investigative interviews with suspects, recorded in audio as part of a standard police procedure for potential use in court. The data was transcribed and analysed within an ethnomethodological framework and using conversation analysis. My research focuses principally on three particular aspects of police-suspect social interactions: how police questioning is oriented to some key legal concepts, e.g. actus reus, mens rea and evidence, that underpin the decision about whether the event investigated was indeed a criminal offence; how suspects narratives or accounts are co-constructed, i.e. negotiated, evaluated and transformed, in order to gain legal relevance especially in terms of the legal concepts aforementioned; and the linguistic resources and the sense-making practices used by police officers to transform lay narratives or accounts into legal informed material. My analysis is divided as follows. In chapter 4, I examine how police officers may elicit prejudicial information from suspects. In chapter 5, I describe in more detail how police officers transform and summarise what they themselves or the suspects have previously said in the interview. Following this, in chapter 6 and 7, I address two very particular defensive strategies adopted by suspects when questioned about their involvement in a criminal offence: portraying the incident as an accident and blaming the putative victim. I show that these social actions and practices are fundamental for understanding how legal concepts not only inform these interactions but are also constructed through them; they orient not only the nature but also the direction of the questioning and the criteria for building a case.

The fabric of law-in-action: ‘formulating’ the suspect’s account during police interviews in England

Abstract: This article reports findings from a study of police interviews of people suspected of having committed relatively minor criminal offences, in a police station in England. The data comprise audio-recorded investigative interviews which were analysed using conversation analysis. It is focused on a communicative practice employed by police officers while questioning suspects. This practice is to ‘formulate’ what the suspect has just said; formulations are a means of summarising the suspect’s evidence in a particular phase of questioning, in such a way as to represent the suspect’s own words. Formulations, as a practice in talk-in-interaction, enable police officers to a) summarise the upshot of what a suspect has said during a period or phase of questioning, b) attribute this summary directly to a suspect’s ‘own words’, c) construct a suspect’s account (confirmation) as legally relevant, and which can d) elicit from the suspect a form of admission. Formulations are employed as a mechanism to rework prior descriptions and utterances by transforming and elaborating them and consolidating their legal relevance. Through this practice, police officers manage to attribute legal labels to what suspects have said during the interview, to their evidence (e.g. as denying, admitting, telling, etc.) as well as to the character of the incidents or events in question (e.g. assault, breach of harassment warning, criminal damage, arson). Formulating, therefore, is an interactional practice through which key legal work is accomplished in police interviews with suspects in England. It is a device that constitutes the fabric of law-in-action.

Aspectos práticos da pesquisa empírica em direito: uma discussão a partir da experiência etnográfica no Tribunal do Júri

Abstract: Neste artigo, estou fundamentalmente interessado em discutir os aspectos praticos da pesquisa de campo em instituicoes juridicas, a partir da experiencia etnografica no Tribunal do Juri em Juiz de Fora/MG. Primeiramente, explico como se deu a definicao do objeto e a construcao do problema de pesquisa. Em seguida, faco uma apresentacao da pesquisa de campo, mostrando o que me guiou e em que direcao. Nesta parte, procuro abordar os principais obstaculos a pesquisa encontrados ao longo do percurso. Conjuntamente, tento comentar como surgiu a ideia das entrevistas, como as realizei, quais foram as inquietacoes e como tratei os dados dessa natureza. O que proponho e, portanto, discutir a pesquisa empirica nao a partir dos seus resultados, mas do processo pela qual ela foi construida.

A PRODUÇÃO DA DECISÃO JUDICIAL: uma abordagem praxeológica dos julgamentos judiciais

Abstract: Este artigo apresenta um programa de pesquisa empirico-procedimental das decisoes judiciais. Ao mostrar tanto as limitacoes dos estudos da filosofia do direito, quanto da ciencia politica, pretende-se discutir as bases metodologicas para uma analise praxeologica dos processos de tomada de decisao por juizes. A partir da descricao de duas situacoes de producao da decisao, uma no Brasil e outra em Franca, o objetivo do texto e explicar como podemos compreender as decisoes judiciais enquanto fenomenos locais e interacionalmente produzidos.

The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.

Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition Part 1: Philosophical Bearings 1. Aims and Strategy 2. The Underlabourer Conception of Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Science 4. The Philosopher's Concern with Language 5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries 6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in Philosophy 7. Epistemology and the Understanding of Society 8. Rules: Wittgenstein's Analysis 9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein Part 2: The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour 1. Philosophy and Sociology 2. Meaningful Behaviour 3. Activities and Precepts 4. Rules and Habits 5. Reflectiveness Part 3: The Social Studies as Science 1. J.S. Mill's 'Logic of the Moral Sciences' 2. Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind 3. Motives and Causes 4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons 5. The Investigation of Regularities 6. Understanding Social Institutions 7. Prediction in the Social Studies Part 4: The Mind and Society 1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct 2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations 3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal Explanation 4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and Social Action Part 5: Concepts and Actions 1. The Internality of Social Relations 2. Discursive and Non-Discursive 'Ideas' 3. The Social Sciences and History 4. Concluding Remark

Sequence Organization In Interaction A Primer In Conversation Analysis

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Notes on Methodology

Abstract: Documentation created as part of the Perceptual Form of the City, a research project investigating the individual’s perception of the urban landscape. Includes a review of techniques used, general critique and future proposals.

'One size doesn't fit all': Lessons from interaction analysis on tailoring Open Science practices to qualitative research.

Abstract: The Open Science Movement aims to enhance the soundness, transparency, and accessibility of scientific research, and at the same time increase public trust in science. Currently, Open Science practices are mainly presented as solutions to the 'reproducibility crisis' in hypothetico-deductive quantitative research. Increasing interest has been shown towards exploring how these practices can be adopted by qualitative researchers. In reviewing this emerging body of work, we conclude that the issue of diversity within qualitative research has not been adequately addressed. Furthermore, we find that many of these endeavours start with existing solutions for which they are trying to find matching problems to be solved. We contrast this approach with a natural incorporation of Open Science practices within interaction analysis and its constituent research traditions: conversation analysis, discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, and membership categorisation analysis. Zooming in on the development of conversation analysis starting in the 1960s, we highlight how practices for opening up and sharing data and analytic thinking have been embedded into its methodology. On the basis of this presentation, we propose a series of lessons learned for adopting Open Science practices in qualitative research.