num_pages: 272
description: Using original field data this book analyzes how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, and what victims, witnesses, defendants, lawyers, and judges think of the trial process. The book offers an accessible insight into the work of the courts and how society deals with violent crime.
language: English
title: Courting Violence: Offences against the Person
titlecomplete: Courting Violence: Offences against the Person (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
publisher: Oxford University Press