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9780230577855

The Criminal Trial in Law and Discourse

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230577855

  • ISBN10:

    0230577857

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book examines how the modern criminal trial is the result of competing discourses of justice, from human rights to state law and order, that allows for the consideration of key stakeholder interests, specifically those of victims, defendants, police, communities and the state.

Author Biography

TYRONE KIRCHENGAST is Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a solicitor and barrister. His research focuses on various facets of criminal justice, including victims of crime, law and governance, and the development of institutions of criminal law and justice. He is author of The Victim in Criminal Law and Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Table of Contents

Preface
Criminal Trials, Foucault, Discourse
A Genealogy of the Trial in Criminal Law
Shifting Boundaries: Recent Changes to Criminal Justice Policy
The Transformative Criminal Trial Emerges
The Criminal Trial as Social Discourse
The Trial as Hermeneutic: A Critical Review
Implications for Criminal Justice Policy
Notes
References

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