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Introduction
My research work straddles sociology of law and policy analysis, with a particular interest in the genesis, institutionalization and uses of expertise and socio-technical systems in policy on justice, law and order. After writing a book on judicial expertise, I turned to analysis of CCTV, electronic monitoring and court hearings videoconferencing. I am conducting a research project on algorithmic devices for processing and analysing case law decisions, often referred to as "predictive justice".
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October 2004 - present
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Filming and transmitting hearings on the one hand, and conducting them by videoconferencing on the other, are generally addressed through different issues and analytical lenses. In this paper we have used the French experience to show that, in fact, the two activities have some features in common. We have tried to highlight the real but discreet em...
Videoconference technology allows interactions between citizens and their governments to be managed without systematic co-presence. It is a relatively discrete innovation, which has been introduced into bureaucracies all over the world, but still remains underanalyzed and as a consequence, underestimated in terms of its impact. This article analyze...
This article analyses the introduction of the video-conference as a test of the normative ideal of a “physical” appearance at a court hearing and, more generally, as symbolic of a weakening of the normative ideal of the co-presence in institutional meetings, in the name of a growing awareness of the costs, in particular the economic cost of the org...
To understand the spread of open street CCTV in France we combined public policy and STS perspectives, taking ANT principles into account. We thus considered CCTV as a socio-technical system, which implies that the technical object cannot be separated from the stakeholders, who build, support and buy into it. It also means that the technology is th...
This article deals with detainees' videoconferenced hearings. In the French justice system, at the end of the 2000s, a public policy was adopted, requiring the use of videoconferencing in order to limit the transport of detainees. This article examines the process of managerialization that has transformed videoconferencing from an ICT tool to an ob...
Lire la préface de Jacques Commaille et l'introduction ici : http://medias.armand-colin.com/document/9782200246457/Feuilletage.pdf
A partir du cas de l’expertise judiciaire, cet article pointe un certain usage des experts, parfois considérés par ceux qui les sollicitent comme de possibles médiateurs. Il montre qu’ainsi, l’expertise contribue de fait à réguler le fonctionnement de l’organisation judiciaire, largement débordée par le flot de demandes qui lui est adressé. Mais le...
Innovation, routinisation and improvisation in the context of a judicial enquiry done by videoconference. How a screen and a camera on castors work in the judicial process in France
This article deals with judicial preliminary hearings involving remote participants connected through a video link. The defendant appears before the court (the examinin...
Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse : http://www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/023/1/023125.HTML
This article deals with the widespread use of open-street close-circuit television (CCTV) systems as a safety policy tool
in French cities. To investigate this diffusion, we suggest tackling CCTV as a socio-technical device able to enrol allies
beyond the initial circle of technology promoters, including former opponents. Through an empirical analy...
in Recherche Droit et Justice - La Lettre du GIP, n° 35
Le present article propose de faire le point sur les differents espaces theoriques ou thematiques constitutifs de ce que l'on appelle actuellement de facon generique les policy transfer studies. il souligne ce que ces travaux ont apporte a la connaissance des mecanismes de fabrique de l'action publique mais aussi ce qu'ils ont laisse de cote - leur...
Droit et Société, n° 74 (ISSN : 0769-3362)
Revue française de science politique, vol. 60, n° 6 (ISSN : 0035-2950)
in Le Mensuel de l'Université, n° 23, mis en ligne : http://www.lemensuel.net
Droit et Société, n° 69-70 (ISSN : 0769-3362)
Il s'agit d'une version remaniée d'un travail doctoral.
Use of videoconferencing by the French judiciary has increased over the past few years between the Paris Appeal Court and the Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Higher Appeal Court. This article analyses the changes that the use of this device has entailed, both in behaviours and in the course of ritualized court proceedings, especially the opening and closi...
A partir du cas de l'expertise judiciaire, cet article pointe un certain usage des experts, parfois considérés par ceux qui les sollicitent comme de possibles médiateurs. Il montre qu'ainsi, l'expertise contribue de fait à réguler le fonctionnement de l'organisation judiciaire, largement débordée par le flot de demandes qui lui est adressé. Mais le...
La question du besoin de connaissances fiables pour gouverner est depuis longtemps posée. Des réflexions sur l'art de gouverner à celles sur la gouvernance, aucune n'ont manqué d'évoquer ou d'interroger les rapports évolutifs entre les savants, les responsables politiques et les citoyens. Mais aujourd'hui, à quoi servent les experts dans la product...
texte en anglais). (Texte remanié à paraître en japonais. Version française et anglaise disponibles
Observatrice des travaux réalisés dans le cadre du groupe de travail dirigé par Monique Sassier sur la médiation familiale, Laurence Dumoulin examine cette pratique de gestion non conflictuelle de la rupture conjugale. Puisant dans les débats qui ont entouré la préparation du rapport mais également dans la littérature sur la médiation, l’auteur don...
