Short courses

Justice Administration Research Supported by Interviews and Document Analysis

Summary

1. Introduction. Main research paradigms in human and applied social sciences: positivism and interpretativism; Main methods and techniques of qualitative research: case study, action research, Design Science, Grounded Theory, ethnography, phenomenology, etc.
2. Main procedures and instruments for data collection: interview, focus group, direct observation, secondary documents, etc.
3. Interviews and Document Analysis. Screenwriting techniques, research protocols and data analysis.
4. Data collection and analysis of interviews; document collection and analysis.
5. Data analysis procedures and softwares use in qualitative research Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS):
   1. IRAMUTEQ (Interface de Rpour les Analyses Multidimensionnellesde Textes et de Questionnaires)
   2. Atlas.ti, version 7.5, developed by Scientific Software Development

Objectives:

1. Provide students with critical understanding of the methods, procedures and instruments that support qualitative research in the area of Justice Administration.
2. State and discuss about research based on interview and document analysis.
3. Show and discuss functionalities of qualitative research auxiliary software.

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Mini curriculum

Jurimetry, Quantitative Empirical Research in Administration of Justice

Summary

Introduction:

a) Defining Quantitative Empirical Research.
b) Conducting Quantitative Empirical Research.
c) Objectives of Quantitative Empirical Research.

Part I: Quantitative Empirical Research Design.

Part II: Collecting and Encoding Quantitative Data.

Part III: Analyzing Quantitative Data.

• Summarizing Quantitative Data;
• Statistical Inference;
• Regression Analysis: The Basis;
• Multiple Regression and Related Methods.

Part IV: Communicating Quantitative Data and Results.

Objectives:

1. Introduce to empirical research and jurimetry.
2. Introduce ways to develop empirical research, from design (planning), data collection and coding, to full analysis and communication.
3. Discuss the advantages of empirical research as a research methodology compared to other research methods in the field of law and the like (Political Science, Economics, Social Sciences, etc.).

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Mini curriculum

Methodological strategies for qualitative research in access to Justice

Summary

The short course aims to revisit some theoretical frameworks on access to Justice, relating them to the debate on the administration of Justice and the understanding of the provision of jurisdiction as a service or even a public policy (also called judicial policy). In the sequence, it will list the methodological strategies that can contribute to research on the perception of citizens, civil servants and members of the Justice system (both understood as members of the bureaucracy) on access to Justice and verify to what extent the performance “at the tip” may interfere with the application of the standard.

1. Updating the debate on access to justice. Beyond the “three waves”;
2. Current scenario of the Brazilian justice system regarding access to justice;
3. Judicial administration and the impact on Access to Justice;
4. Street-level bureaucracy and access to justice;
5. Organizing research: the challenges of the field;
6. Interview or observation (or both)? When is the analysis of the procedural records necessary?
7. Analyzing qualitative data in research on access to justice.

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