Documenting the document: The forensic hospital report and its knowledge moves
By: King, T.J. Shaw, J.D. and Kennedy, L
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BookPublisher: Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal Description: 33(3), Jun, 2024: p.309-327.Subject(s): Not criminally responsible, mental disorder, Canadian provincial review board, forensic hospital report, medico-legal risk knowledge, legal decision-making, actor-network theory, socio-legal objects, knowledge production, significantly threatening individual, document analysis, knowledge moves, material form, institutional presupposition, case study methodology, human and non-human actors, legal epistemology, risk construction, documented discourse, analytical treatment of documents
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Social and Legal Studies: An International JournalSummary: Drawing on case files from a Canadian provincial review board tasked with determining the disposition of persons found ‘not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder’, we explore the role of the forensic hospital report in the production of medico-legal risk knowledges. Through a detailed case study, we show how the report's content and particular material form allow the Board to produce the ‘significantly threatening individual’ – the very thing the Board (and report) are meant to presuppose. We therefore call on scholars to document their documents, and, in the spirit of actor-network theory (ANT), to analytically treat socio-legal objects as active participants in knowledge's creation. By accounting for the ‘knowledge moves’ the hospital report might allow, encourage, or prohibit human actors to make, we hope even ANT sceptics can use these tools to better understand various legal decision-making processes and their effects.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09646639231187093
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Drawing on case files from a Canadian provincial review board tasked with determining the disposition of persons found ‘not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder’, we explore the role of the forensic hospital report in the production of medico-legal risk knowledges. Through a detailed case study, we show how the report's content and particular material form allow the Board to produce the ‘significantly threatening individual’ – the very thing the Board (and report) are meant to presuppose. We therefore call on scholars to document their documents, and, in the spirit of actor-network theory (ANT), to analytically treat socio-legal objects as active participants in knowledge's creation. By accounting for the ‘knowledge moves’ the hospital report might allow, encourage, or prohibit human actors to make, we hope even ANT sceptics can use these tools to better understand various legal decision-making processes and their effects.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09646639231187093
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