Legal consciousness

Legal consciousness is a 'collection' of understood and/or imagined to have understood, legal awareness of ideas, views, feelings and traditions imbibed through legal socialization; which reflects as legal culture among given individual, or a group, or a given society at large. The legal consciousness evaluates the existing law and also bears in mind an image of the desired or ideal law. [1][2]

Consciousness is not an individual trait nor solely ideational; legal consciousness is a type of social practice reflecting and forming social structures.[3] The study of legal Consciousness documents the forms of participation and interpretation through which act or sustain, reproduce, or amend the circulating contested or hegemonic structures of meanings concerning law. Legal consciousness is the way in which law is experienced and interpreted by specific individuals as they engage, avoid, resist or just assume the law and legal meanings.

Legal consciousness is a state of being, legal socialisation is the process to Legal consciousness; where as legal awareness & legal mobilisation are means to achieve the same.

Definition

The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (1979) defined legal consciousness as " the sum of views and ideas expressing the attitude of people toward law, legality, and justice and their concept of what is lawful and unlawful. Legal consciousness is a form of social consciousness. Legal ideology, the system of legal views based on certain social and scientific viewpoints, is a concentrated expression of legal consciousness. The customs and feelings of people in relation to legal phenomena constitute the psychological aspect of legal consciousness; among these are a sense of justice and a loathing of crimes and illegal actions "

History of legal consciousness

legal consciousness narratives

legal consciousness narratives[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.juridicainternational.eu/?id=12433
  2. ↑ Legal Consciousness Among Youth at the Red Hook Community Justice Center By Aviad Lael Brisman
  3. ↑ Silbey, Susan (2008). "legal consciousness" (PDF). New Oxford Companion to Law: 2. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ↑ http://blog.lawbore.net/2012/12/ucl-current-legal-problems-i-fought-the-law-and-the-law-won-legal-consciousness-legal-hegemony-the-critical-imagination-sean-knight/
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