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Juvenile Courtroom Interactions: Verbal and Bodily Performances as an Object of Exchange with the Judges

By Bengü Kurtege Sefer.

Published by The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

This article scrutinizes (un)successful patterns in verbal and bodily performances of different actors- judges, lawyers, suspects and litigants- to make justifications and accusations in courtroom hearings with reference to property crime trials at the juvenile court in Istanbul. The content of accounts and representational styles addressing the judges as an audience with different intentions illustrate the patterns of adjudication. The aim is to illustrate the general isolation of the accused juveniles in the courtroom, deprived of legal aid, considered as unreliable for supplying accurate information against litigants, and subjectified only when they comply with legal language and display the role of regretful child. The new juvenile justice policy in Turkey oscillates between policing and rehabilitation. These performances show how the preceding side of the policy actualizes itself in the courtroom hearings. In trials, generally, the accused juveniles were prosecuted as dangerous adult offenders and the objective was to provide justice to the victims instead of targeting the eradication of the causes of property crimes.

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp.201-220. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 698.727KB).

Bengü Kurtege Sefer

PHD Student, The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey