한국의 TV 법정 텍스트와 시민들의 수용태도에 관한 연구

This article is to study how TV texts that are representing legal matters influence to the people’s legal consciousness. The people’s legal consciousness is one of the important factors that constitute a country’s legal culture. Since the Crime Scene Investigation has been broadcasted, American citizen began to think criminal law applied more rigidly and the number of innocent cases increased outstandingly. As such, TV texts influence to the people’s legal consciousness and furthermore initiates the critical change of their legal culture and legal system. In this article, I analyze the relationship between TV legal texts and the people’s attitude of reception. Although many foreign TV legal texts are broadcasted in Korea, this article dealts with Korean TV legal texts. The main reasons are that TV texts reflect the popular demands and the practices of their society and that they influence reversely to the people’s way of thinking and acting. Accordingly, TV texts and people are very closely interrelated. This article is composed of four chapters. The first chapter is an introductory part. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of the Koran TV legal texts. I tried to draw their characteristics from the selected TV legal texts. In the third chapter, I dealt with the contents of the texts. How legal system, lawyers and judicial courts are represented in the texts was dealt with. Especially, what contents and images are delivered in the texts will be focused upon. The fourth chapter dealt with the people’s reception attitude towards the TV legal texts. For this analysis, I used the audiences’ reviews in the homepages of broadcasting cooperation. In the last chapter, I drew several conclusive remarks. The import of TV legal texts is to provide the images of judiciary to the lay people who have few chances to face with judiciary people. Of course these images were not so much different from the stereo type that the people have already in their consciousness. Unlike this, there is an interesting structure of confronting between legal system and citizen. The confronting structure provides some critical points against the legal system or judiciary people that make innocent citizen being trapped in trouble. In the boards there are many negative comments against law and judicial people. Especially, commenters tried to point out the problems of judicial system from the social structure or institutions basis rather than individual or group basis.