Courting Violence: Offences Against the Person Cases in Court

ISBN-13: 9780199279357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str.

Nigel G. Fielding

Opis

Using original field data this book analyzes how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, and what victims, witnesses, defendants, lawyers, and judges think of the trial process. The book offers an accessible insight into the work of the courts and how society deals with violent crime.

O autorze

Nigel Fielding is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Surrey, England. He was editor of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice from 1985 to 1998. His principal research interests are in criminal justice, and new technologies for social research. He has previously conducted research on the work of probation officers, the training of police officers, the training of lawyers, community policing, social services/police collaboration in the investigation of child sexual abuse, and 'reassurance policing' and 'signal crimes'. He is a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, British Society of Criminology, Howard League for Penal Reform and the Groupe Europ'een de Recherches sur les Normativiti'es, and is a sometime consultant to the Police Training Council, CENTREX Bramshill National Police College, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Home Office.