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Thomas Scheffer
Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt
Publications - 64
Citations - 720
Thomas Scheffer is an academic researcher from Goethe University Frankfurt. The author has contributed to research in topics: Law in action & Politics. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 64 publications receiving 597 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Scheffer include Humboldt State University & University of Osnabrück.
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Gütekriterien qualitativer Sozialforschung. Ein Diskussionsanstoß
TL;DR: In this article, five criteria for qualitative social research are proposed: adequacy, pervasiveness, empirical saturation, textual performance, originality, and theoretical perviveness, according to which the claim to research innovation may be examined.
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Adversarial Case-Making
TL;DR: In this article, a case of indecent assault and wounding with intent is described, with a focus on the use of sleep-walking expertise in interrogating a single case in criminal proceedings.
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Criminal Defence and Procedure: Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an in-depth comparison of criminal defence work in different legal cultures and show how defence work responds to the challenges of different procedural regimes and how it contributes to their individual outcomes.
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Die trans-sequentielle Analyse – und ihre formativen Objekte
TL;DR: In this paper, Scheffer et al. present analysen fuhren hier Symbole, Rituale, Common Sense, etc. ins Feld, um Verallgemeinerungen zu wagen: von Bedeutungsgehalten zum kulturellen Text, vom Geschehen zu Praxismustern, vom Vollzug zu Ethnomethoden, von den Regeln zur institutionellen Ordnung.
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Event and Process: An Exercise in Analytical Ethnography
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors confront snapshots of English Crown Court proceedings with models of event and process from micro-sociology and macro-socio-economic models from the field of analytical ethnography.