LAW AND JUSTICE IN FICTION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH. “A WAY TO GET A BETTER WORLD”

Ioana Sasu-Bolba

FIAT IUSTITIA, 2018, vol. 12, issue 2, 250-255

Abstract: Our study consists of two sections. The first one is a theoretical approach to the major subject matter (justice and law in fiction). The second section analyzes how theory is applied to a particular legal novel. It is necessary to begin with the theoretical section because we want to explain the difference between sciences (law) on the one hand and psychology as a different way of approaching the subject on the other hand when applied to fiction (subject-matter). The second section is proof of how theory (psychology) is applied to works of fiction (legal novels/thrillers). The first section deals with some important matters which are to be taken into consideration, such as how to write legal thrillers, lawyers in legal thrillers, who are the readers of legal novels and last but not least what means a psychological approach to fiction. If science (psychology - psychologists) perform an analytic approach to explain facts by reaching the core of evil and cure it, writers in their works (legal thrillers) act vice versa: they display details (symptoms) without explaining them. Thus, the reader becomes an active part in finding out the core of evil, the truth. How this requirement can be achieved in a legal thriller is the subject matter of a next paper.

Keywords: justice; law; lawyer; criminal; fiction; legal novels/thrillers; subject matter; theme; plot; psychology; psychological approach to literature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K0 K00 K10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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