10 Theater of the Courtroom
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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