Cecilia Nordquist

Hi, my name is Cecilia - I'm a I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology working within the international project Justemotions.

My research focuses on plea barganing and discretion in United States criminal court and how legal professionals, judges and prosecutors, use and manage their emotions in their decision-making practices.

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.