Generic Structure Potential of the Adjudicatory Proceedings of Juvenile Court in South-west Nigeria

Olukemi Adesina
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Olukemi Adesina: Lead City University, Ibadan

International Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities, 2023, vol. 1, issue 1, 241-251

Abstract: The juvenile court is a legal institution where children that are offenders or neglected are arraigned for trial or supervision. Generic Structure Potential (GSP), a perspective developed by Halliday and Hassan (1989) accounts for the thematic activities of such institutions. GSP is a contextual analysis that discusses the components of texts and sequence of discourse in interactions. Extant studies on thematic activities of institutions have focused on GSP of the essays, newspaper entries, editorials, shop interactions, classroom interactions and wedding proceedings. These works serve as the basis for proposing generic prototypical patterns and generic classifications of discursive events. Adjudicatory proceedings involve issues related to children in the Nigerian context. The contextual study of the prototypical pattern of adjudicatory proceedings from GSP’s perspective which sparsely exists in literature is the gap this paper aims to fill. This study employs three selected juvenile courts in South-West Nigeria to explore the contextual situation and interactional structure of the proceedings. This paper is able to predict the nature of adjudicatory proceedings, present obligatory structural elements as based on mutual assumption and demonstrate mitigation against politic behaviour through clarification utterances. The study contributes to a better understanding of juvenile court proceedings and provides insights into the delivery of justice to children.

Keywords: Generic Structure; Proceedings; Juvenile Court; Contextual Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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