While there is abundant research on common law jury systems, we know less about lay participation in civil law crime trials, often called ‘mixed courts’ or alternately ‘mixed tribunals'. Here, a professional judge and a number of lay judges deliberate together on the issues of guilt and sentencing. This joint deliberation has naturally led both public opinion and research to focus on power relations such as lay judges’ dependence on the professional judges. Based on an ethnographic study of deliberation processes, the present article offers a different perspective on lay judges’ contribution and argues that their decision making rests on a hybrid construction of knowledge in the continuous interaction between the professional judge and lay participants during deliberation. The analysis of this decision‐making process contributes to our understanding of how ordinary people selected for this civic duty create knowledge about justice.

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参与犯罪的丹麦人：在审议过程中，法官与专业法官之间的互动

尽管对普通法陪审团制度进行了大量研究，但我们对非专业人员参与民法犯罪审判（通常称为“混合法院”或“混合法庭”）的了解较少。在这里，一名专业法官和一些非专业法官共同讨论有罪和量刑问题。这种联合审议自然导致舆论和研究都集中在权力关系上，例如非专业法官对专业法官的依赖。基于人种学的审议过程研究，本文对非专业法官的贡献提出了不同的看法，并认为他们的决策取决于专业法官与非专业参与者在审议过程中持续互动中知识的混合建构。