Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility / edited by Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Field, Stewart, editor.

Tata, Cyrus, editor.

Series:

Oñati International Series in Law and Society.

Oñati International Series in Law and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Decision making.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated? The book argues that defendants, at various stages of the criminal justice process, are expected to show a (more or less) free acceptance of guilt and individual responsibility along with a display of 'appropriate' emotions, ideally including 'genuine' remorse. It examines why such expressions of individual responsibility and remorse are so important to decision-makers and the state. With contributors from across the world, the book opens new comparative possibilities and research agendas.

Contents:

Part 1: The Making of Remorse and Responsibility 1. Locating the Ideal Defendant: Punishment, Violence and Legitimacy Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata 2. Remorse in the French Criminal Justice System: A Subterranean Influence Virginie Gautron 3. Constructing remorse: Interactional dimensions of finding an emotion Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack 4. Constructing Ideal Defendants in the Pre-Sentence Phase: The Connection Between Responsibility and Potential Remorse Louise Victoria Johansen 5. The Paradoxical Uses of 'Culture' in Judicial Assessment of Defendant Demeanour and Remorse. Irene Van Oorschot 6. Cultural Sensitivity Training, Judicial Feelings, and Everyday Practice: Conversations at the edge of research Kate Rossmanith Part 2: Beyond Remorse 7. Remorse is Not Enough: Disentangling the Roles of Remorse and Insight in the Construction of the Ideal Defendant Richard Weisman 8. The Construction of the Ideal Defendant: Comparative Understandings of the Normalisation of Guilt Jacqueline S. Hodgson 9. Looking for the Ideal Parole Applicant? Nicola Padfield Part 3: The Political and Cultural Significance of Remorse and Responsibility 10. The Enactment of Political Cultures in Criminal Court Process: Remorse, Responsibility and the Unique Individual Before the French cours d'assises Stewart Field 11. Punishment and the 'Blind Symbiosis' of Legal and Rehabilitation Work in the Making of the 'Ideal' Defendant Cyrus Tata 12. Remorse and Restoration: The Role of Remorse in Constructing the 'Ideal Offender' of Restorative Justice Giuseppe Maglione

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781509939947

9781509968336

1509939946

9781509939923

150993992X

9781509939930

1509939938

OCLC:

1378392989