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The study of justice and law using Kremlinological methods—focusing not on formal legal doctrine but on who receives justice, who is denied it, and how justice is performed as a ritual of power. Justiciologists analyze court rulings, pardon lists, settlement patterns, and the language of judicial opinions to infer the hidden ideologies and power alignments that determine outcomes. Like Sovietologists reading the show trials for clues about factional struggles, justiciologists read high‑profile cases for evidence of which groups are favored and which are scapegoated. The field reveals that justice is often a performance, and that true justiciology studies the gap between the performance and the reality.
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