Construction of guilt and responsibility in selected legal institutions: Discursive practices and strategies
Abstract
The thesis deals with the ways political and expert (especially legal and criminological) discourses formulate and reproduce the meanings, assumptions and definitions constructing the man as a subject of criminal law, a subject responsible for his actions. It focuses on the ways the political domain (in particular, the lower and upper chambers of the Czech Parliament) and the scientific domain (in particular, legal science, criminology and psychiatry) form and formulate the opinions of “criminal law” and the ways these opinions are reflected in meanings embodied in criminal law itself.
Methodologically, the thesis builds on critical discourse analysis.
