Cecilia Nordquist

Building on ethnographic material, Cecilia researches how prosecutors’ plea offers are formed and legitimatised in plea bargaining interaction in a U.S. criminal court. Accounting for how the prosecutors' emotions are used, her investigation stretches from the preparatory stages of decision-making to the front-line interaction where prosecutors and defence lawyers negotiate to reach an agreement and a guilty plea, in which the defendant relinquishes their constitutional rights to trial.

BA & MA i Sociologi vid Göteborgs Universitet

Cecilia works within the JUSTEMOTIONS PROJECT investigating how objectivity is constructed in different legal systems by comparing decision-making in criminal cases in four countries.

Cecilia actively participates in one of the departmental research groups, Emotion, Justice and Interaction (EmoJI) http://soc.uu.se/forskning/forskargrupper/emoji/

Conference papers, presentations and Workshops:

2023

Dissertation chapter. Presented at: Show and Tell, workshop. Höör, Sweden.

2022
Emotional Community and Estrangement in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach. Presented at: RN11 Network Midterm Conference, European Sociological Association. Hamburg, Germany.

Emotional Dynamics of Plea Bargaining (developed in global setting). Presented at: Law and Society Association, Global Meeting. Lisbon, Portugal.

Emotional Dynamics of Plea Barganing. Presented at: Sociologidagarna. Uppsala, Sweden.

2021
Expanding Emotional Capital in Court. Presented at: European Sociological Association. Barcelona, Spain [online].

2020
Embodying Two Sides of the Law: Exploring Emotional Capital in Legal and Medical Decision-Making. Presented at: American Sociological Association. Virtual conference.

2019
Methodologically Feeling - The Process of Entering a New Area of Research through the Lens of Emotion Sociology. Presented at: European Sociological Association. Manchester, United Kingdom.