Criminal Defence and Procedure [electronic resource] : Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States /
Scheffer, T.author.
Hannken-Illjes, K.author.
Kozin, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Criminology.
Juvenile delinquents.
Social policy.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
Law.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
Social Policy.
Crime and Society.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .
Law, general.