Beschreibung:
Jessica Jacobson is Co-Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck, University of London, where Gillian Hunter is a Senior Research Fellow and Amy Kirby is a Research Fellow.
This timely book provides a vivid description of what it is like to attend court as a victim, a witness or a defendant; the interplay between the different players in the courtroom; and the extent to which the court process is viewed as legitimate by those involved in it.
Introduction; The court process as conflict management; The incongruities of the court process; Structured mayhem; Them and us; Reluctant conformity; Legitimacy; Going to court: some conclusions.