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Corporate Compliance and Conformity
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Corporate Compliance and Conformity

by Petter Gottschalk
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
244 pages
8h 35m
English
Routledge
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10 Theater of the Courtroom

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-13

The concept of language games was introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein. His philosophy combined with Goffman’s theater analogy of performance can be applied to the courtroom as a theater scene. Storytelling by prosecution and defense differ implicitly during examinations, but the underlying stories are never explicitly told. This chapter presents two court cases from Norway, where white-collar offenders were on trial. In the first case, defense performance was concerned with negligence fraud, while prosecution performance was concerned with intentional fraud. In the second case, defense performance was concerned with friendship services, while the prosecution performance was concerned ...

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