Empathy and Objectivity in the Legal Procedure : The Case of Swedish Prosecutors
The role of empathy, the capacity to read someone else’s emotions, inthe legal context has previously been studied in relation to primarilyjudges’ decision-making, often with a concern for objectivity. Ourpurpose is to study professional emotion management in the legalprocess through an analysis of Swedish prosecutors’ use of empathy.An ethnographic data collection took place between 2012 and2015,The role of empathy, the capacity to read someone else’s emotions, in the legal context has previously been studied in relation to primarily judges’ decision-making, often with a concern for objectivity. Our purpose is to study professional emotion management in the legal process through an analysis of Swedish prosecutors’ use of empathy. An ethnographic data collection took place between 2012 and