Criminal defence and procedure : comparative ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States / Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Introducing Procedure -- Field Access as an Ongoing Accomplishment -- Procedural Past: Binding and Unbinding -- Procedural Future: The Politics of Positioning -- Procedural Presence -- Failing and Learning -- Courts as Ways of Knowing -- Postscript -- Notes -- References
Summary
Procedure is not just a programme or a nexus of formalities. It is something done by legal experts and lay participants in a highly concerted ensemble. Procedure frames and advances all law-relevant activities. This book, written by three authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, provides an in-depth comparison of criminal defence work in different legal cultures. Via an ethnographic comparison, this book also shows how defence work responds to the challenges of different procedural regimes and how it contributes to their individual outcomes. Criminal Defence and Procedure opens up new horizons for legal comparison, inviting novel understandings of procedural law as well as possibilities of legal reform
"Doing Procedure provides an in-depth comparison of criminal defence work in different legal cultures, showing how defence work is shaped by different regimes and how it influences outcomes"-- Provided by publisher
