The criminal trial in law and discourse / Tyrone Kirchengast.
2010
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Author
Title
The criminal trial in law and discourse / Tyrone Kirchengast.
Published
Basingstoke ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Call Number
K5404 .K57 2010
ISBN
9780230577855 (hardbound)
0230577857 (hardbound)
0230577857 (hardbound)
Description
xi, 252 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)635463610
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
viii
List of Abbreviations
x
ch. 1
Criminal Trials, Foucault, Discourse
1
The trial as contested territory
7
A note on method: Èffective history', discourse and legal hermeneutics
14
Is the criminal trial in crisis?
17
The adversarial criminal trial as rhetoric
19
Local and magistrates' courts
20
Courts of therapeutic justice
22
The trial as hermeneutic: Terrorism, the victim and human rights
24
Terrorism, national security and domestic order
25
Victim rights and human rights
31
The adversarial criminal trial in transition
32
Examining the trial in history and discourse
34
ch. 2
A Genealogy of the Trial in Criminal Law
39
The criminal trial as an institution of social power
40
The trial in customary law
42
The trial of animals
48
Ecclesiastical trials
48
Secular trials
49
The criminal trial as local governance
51
Communal rule: Hundred court and the rise of presentment
51
The general eyre
57
Commission of oyer and ternniner
59
Commission of gaol delivery
59
From inquisitorial to adversarial justice
60
ch. 3
Shifting Boundaries: Recent Changes to Criminal Justice Policy
65
Expedient justice
66
Committal proceedings
67
The rise of summary disposal
70
Infringement and penalty notices
71
Dispensing with the jury
72
Charge bargaining
78
The law and order debate
81
Extending policing power
82
Bail
85
Control orders, ASBOs and domestic order
87
Modifying the criminal trial
92
Defences: Provocation
93
Double jeopardy
95
Victims' lawyers
97
England and Wales
98
United States
100
Australia
108
The International Criminal Court
109
The rise of terrorism
110
Control orders - A criminal charge?
110
Non-derogating control orders and the ECHR
113
ch. 4
The Transformative Criminal Trial Emerges
119
Rethinking the public/private dichotomy
121
Emerging human rights discourse: Victims' rights human rights and due process
125
Human rights under the ECHR
126
Human rights and statutory reform
133
Criminal procedure in European civil law
137
The International Criminal Court
138
Auxiliary prosecution in adversarial criminal trials
139
Adhesion proceedings
142
Therapeutic jurisprudence and problem-solving courts
143
Origins of problem-solving courts
144
The principles of problem-solving courts
145
Case study: The community court
147
Sentencing and punishment
151
Intervention programs, forum and circle sentencing
153
Victim impact statements
156
Victim's compensation, proportionality and the sentencing process
160
ch. 5
The Criminal Trial as Social Discourse
165
Discourse defined
167
Power, knowledge and the adversarial criminal trial
171
R v Camberwell Green Youth Court [2005] 1 All ER 999
174
Gately v The Queen (2007) 232 CLR 208
175
Crawford v Washington (2004) 541 US 36
179
The criminal trial, disciplinary power and the periphery of justice
183
Decentralised justice
186
ch. 6
The Trial as Hermeneutic: A Critical Review
189
Adversarial, inquisitorial and integrative approaches
192
Discursive tensions: Re-asserting the adversarial model
194
History, discourse and genealogy: Displacing truth claims
200
A note on normative thinking
205
Law and social systems
207
ch. 7
Implications for Criminal Justice Policy
211
Substantive and procedural justice
212
On discourse and power
217
Revolutionising criminal law and justice
220
Notes
226
References
232
Index
240