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.
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Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant is a dazzling contribution. It takes the debate in important new directions, and poses a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom. * Susan A. Bandes, Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus, DePaul University College of Law, USA * Criminal Justice & The Ideal Defendant originates new research agendas and fresh perspectives on the key problem of remorse and responsibility. * Julian Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Oxford University, UK * This fascinating volume reveals the complex role of emotions in criminal justice; a topic that requires and deserves our urgent attention, if we are to find our way towards more honest and more just systems and practices. * Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology & Social Work, Glasgow University, Scotland * Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata have brought together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the crucial puzzle that is 'the ideal defendant.' This is the ideal collection on the ideal defendant. * Steven Tudor, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University, Australia *
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Stewart Field is Professor of Law at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.
Cyrus Tata is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Strathclyde University Law School, UK, where he is director of the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice.
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Cardiff University, UK
Strathclyde University, UK
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
