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A Pesquisa com Acórdãos nas Ciências Sociais: Algumas Reflexões Metodológicas

2013; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5433/2176-6665.2013v18n2p86

2176-6665

Thiago Coacci,

Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems

This paper purports to reflect, from a methodological perspective, on second instance court decisions research framework, answering the following questions: a) what should a good research framework encompass; b) how to find and choose a second instance court decision; c) what are the strengths and weaknesses of a second instance court decision research and what is lost and captured by such decisions; d) which methods and techniques can be used in researches involving second instance court decisions. In order to answer these questions the text is divided in three parts. The first addresses the discussion on research methodology in Social Sciences. The second part explains, in a simple way for non-jurists, what a second instance court decision consists of, how it is structured, what courses of action are taken until it is delivered, and the advantages/disadvantages of their use as data sources. Finally, some examples of second instance court decision researches in Social Sciences are presented so as to illustrate which data can be collected from those decisions, which methods are compatible with the choice of the decision as a source and how such methods can be used.