@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2512},
      author = {McCarthy, Jacob},
      title = {Yelling to Listen and Other Paradoxes of American Pro se  Small Claims Court},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2018-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {While there is extensive scholarship on lower criminal  courts, civil courts are often ignored in sociological  discourse. I conducted an ethnographic study of a pro se  small claims court in hopes of contributing to this limited  scholarship. Drawing on existing sociological theories, and  my own observation, I argue that these courts are the locus  of a negotiation between democratic ideals and autocratic  control. This negotiation is apparent in the architecture  of the space, its rhetorical structure, and its judge’s  relationship to the law.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2512},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2512},
}