Criminal Defence and Procedure: Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States - Hardcover

Scheffer, T.; Hannken-Illjes, K.; Kozin, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230230229 ISBN 13: 9780230230224

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Procedure is not just a programme or a nexus of formalities. It is something done by legal experts and lay participants in a highly concerted ensemble. Procedure frames and advances all law-relevant activities. This book, written by three authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, provides an in-depth comparison of criminal defence work in different legal cultures. Via an ethnographic comparison, this book also shows how defence work responds to the challenges of different procedural regimes and how it contributes to their individual outcomes. Criminal Defence and Procedure opens up new horizons for legal comparison, inviting novel understandings of procedural law as well as possibilities of legal reform.

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About the Author

THOMAS SCHEFFER is Heisenberg Scholar at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and previously led the law-in-action Research Group at the Free University Berlin. He has conducted ethnographic and discourse analytical research on migration control, social work, legal casework, and parliamentary inquiries. His research interests include micro-sociology, sociology of knowledge, and cultural comparison. Scheffer is spokesperson of the section 'sociology of law' in the German Sociological Association.

KATI HANNKEN-ILLJES is a Senior Lecturer at the Department for German Linguistics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. Her research focuses on legal rhetoric, the relation of narrating and arguing and the didactics of teaching interpersonal communication.
 
ALEXANDER KOZIN is Research Fellow at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. His areas of specialization include communication studies, phenomenology, translation theory, semiotics, and law and society. Currently, he is working on a project that examines criminal law in relation to 'subjects with limited culpability'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230230229
• ISBN 13: 9780230230224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214