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Capus, Nadja
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Capus, Nadja
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Professeure ordinaire
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nadja.capus@unine.ch
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- PublicationAccès libreLe tribunal pénal : un élément perturbateur dans le flux fluide du droit transnational de la lutte anticorruption ?(2025)Le droit anti-corruption se révèle être une fascinante illustration d’un régime transnational structuré autour d’instruments internationaux tels que les Conventions de l’OCDE et de l’ONU. L’extension des mécanismes extraterritoriaux ciblant la corruption des entreprises a transformé le rôle des tribunaux : autrefois moteurs de la transnationalisation du droit, ils sont désormais perçus comme des facteurs de perturbation du développement du droit pénal anticorruption transnational. L’analyse révèle un double déplacement de l’autorité : les normes pénales sont influencées par des standards de conformité privés, tandis que la justice négociée (Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Conventions Judiciaires d’Intérêt Public) réduit le contrôle judiciaire par les tribunaux sur les faits et la qualification des infractions. Cette évolution soulève des défis pour l’État de droit : En effet, la dépendance aux enquêtes internes menées par les entreprises suspectées affaiblit l’indépendance des juges. Il devient essentiel de renforcer la capacité de contrôle des juges et de redéfinir leur rôle dans les accords transactionnels pour préserver l’impartialité de la justice.
- PublicationAccès libreRedefining Interpreters’ and Translators’ Roles(2024-05-28)
; In multilingual societies, translation and interpreting play pivotal roles in facilitating access to essential services provided by public institutions for individuals speaking languages other than the official language. However, prevailing assumptions among professionals in these institutions often regard translation as a mechanical process, overlooking the inherent interpretive nature of interlingual transfer. This study examines the interventions of intercept interpreters/translators (IITs) in the translation process within the criminal justice system, focusing on covert communication surveillance. An analysis of 538 translated intercept records (TIRs) reveals that IITs significantly intervene in selecting and interpreting content, often decrypting vague or encoded terms used in intercepted conversations. These interventions, which include annotations and comments, shape the evidentiary value and comprehensibility of TIRs. The findings highlight the complex nature of communication surveillance and underscore the need to reconsider the roles of translators and interpreters. This study contributes to our overall understanding about the ambiguous roles interpreters and translators may play in public institutions. As for IITs, the study suggests a re-evaluation of their roles that recognizes their specialized skills and multiple tasks. - PublicationAccès libreRedefining Interpreters' and Translators' Role(2024)
; In multilingual societies, translation and interpreting play pivotal roles in facilitating access to essential services provided by public institutions for individuals speaking languages other than the official language. However, prevailing assumptions among professionals in these institutions often regard translation as a mechanical process, overlooking the inherent interpretive nature of interlingual transfer. This study examines the interventions of intercept interpreters/translators (IITs) in the translation process within the criminal justice system, focusing on covert communication surveillance. An analysis of 538 translated intercept records (TIRs) reveals that IITs significantly intervene in selecting and interpreting content, often decrypting vague or encoded terms used in intercepted conversations. These interventions, which include annotations and comments, shape the evidentiary value and comprehensibility of TIRs. The findings highlight the complex nature of communication surveillance and underscore the need to reconsider the roles of translators and interpreters. This study contributes to our overall understanding about the ambiguous roles interpreters and translators may play in public institutions. As for IITs, the study suggests a re-evaluation of their roles that recognizes their specialized skills and multiple tasks. - PublicationAccès libreReduced statement credibility in interpreter-mediated interviews(2023-04-14)
; ; Stoll, MirjamIn this article, we examine whether the participation of an interpreter in police–suspect investigative interviews affects the perception of statement credibility based on the written record of the interview and, whether this relationship is influenced by the interaction style as depicted in the written record. This study thus addresses the question of whether the credibility problems observed in interpreter-mediated investigative interviews are carried forward to the case file and is based on the content analysis of 102 actual written records of police–suspect interviews conducted in Switzerland. Our results show, first, that written suspect statements are indeed considered to be less credible when an interpreter participates in the interview. Second, this effect is mediated by the questioning style and the fragmentation of discourse. According to the written records of interpreter-mediated interviews, interviewers use a more controlling questioning style and suspects provide shorter answers, which in turn results in reduced statement credibility. - PublicationAccès libreImpression management in corporate corruption settlements: The storied self of the prosecutorial authority(2023-03-11)
; Bozinova, MelodyTransnational corporate bribery cases are increasingly resolved through non-trial resolutions called settlements. These settlements lead to a considerable shift of the prosecutorial authority’s role. Drawing on Goffman’s impression management framework (1959), this article conceptualises settlement procedures as ‘backstage criminal justice’ that aims to shield criminal justice practice from public view and showcase a team-crafted narrative. Our narrative analysis of a publicly available settlement in England and Wales investigates the prosecutorial authority’s impression management strategies within settlement storytelling. The analysis reveals three distinct and sometimes conflicting narratives of the prosecutorial role in settling criminal justice. These conflicting narratives reflect the ambiguities inherent in enforcing national criminal laws transnationally against economically relevant companies. - PublicationAccès libreShadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal(2023)
- PublicationAccès libreShadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal(2023)
- PublicationAccès libreThe politics of informality in criminal procedures(2023)
; ; The tension between formality and informality is intrinsic to the implementation of criminal law. Criminal procedures in fact always happen on a continuum between formality and informality, where the different actors involved (police ofcers and other street-level bureaucrats, prosecutors, judges, experts, defense lawyers, etc.) continuously perform and negotiate (in)formality. This special issue explores these ’politics of (in)formality“ in different criminal law settings and from different disciplinary perspectives. The different empirical contributions explore the continuum between formality and informality as well as practices of informalization in two different levels of the criminal justice system: police investigations and court proceedings. - PublicationAccès libreLes faits établis par des accords étrangers et des rapports internes - une base valide pour une décision pénale suisse ?(2022-11-24)
; Il s'agit d'un commentaire de l’ordonnance de la Cour des affaires pénales du Tribunal pénal fédéral SK.2020.49 et de la décision de recours de la Cour des plaintes du Tribunal pénal fédéral BB.2022.3. Les jugements des grandes affaires de corruption transnationale et de blanchiment d’argent font apparaître une nouvelle pratique qui consiste à établir les faits sur la base du contenu des transactions pénales judiciaires. À partir d’un cas actuel concernant Gulnara Karimova, nous identifions concrètement deux méthodes : d’une part, la communication et la transplantation transnationale des faits qui ont été établis dans des procédures de négociation (des accords) conclues à l’étranger et, d’autre part, le recours à des rapports internes. Cette contribution décrit ce phénomène, la problématique juridique et les préoccupations pratiques y relatives, en particulier quant à l’admissibilité et la valeur probante du contenu des accords et des rapports internes. - PublicationAccès libreGhostwriters of crime narratives: Constructing the story by referring to intercept interpreters’ contributions in criminal case files(2022-11-2)
; Grisot, CristinaIn our paper, we examine the role of intercept interpreters in this storytelling. To do so, we employ the framework of narrative criminology, which has demonstrated the importance of stories for understanding both crimes and justice. Whereas previous research in the area of criminal justice focused on court rooms and police stations to study the making of the narrative, in this study we investigate the paperwork of case files. We then empirically analyze the mentioned textual strategies of criminal justice agents when referring to the contributions of intercept interpreters in order to examine whether the narrative deployed in the case file blurs or downplays the active role of intercept interpreters. Our study is based on material that derives from four case files from Swiss prosecutors in two French-speaking cantons in Switzerland to which we were given complete access. This material and our narrative criminological approach will increase our knowledge about how to critically reconstruct the narrative deployed in the case file of a criminal procedure.