The Social World of an English Crown Court: Witness and Professionals in the Crown Court Centre at Wood Green

ISBN-13: 9780198258438 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 400 str.

Paul E. Rock

Opis

The first ethnographic study of a Crown Court Centre, this book describes the origins and early history of a pioneering project to support victims and prosecution witnesses appearing before the court--the Witness Support Project. Paul Rock analyzes the major divide which exists in the life of the court between professional insiders and public outsiders. He provides details of how this division is built into court architecture, administration, and social relations, and examines how it stems from the preoccupation of court officials with the control of knowledge, public order, and emotion.

Recenzje

`should be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the working of the criminal justice system in England and Wales ... a highly detailed observational analysis of the way in which witnesses are routinely excluded from the insiders' world ... Rock provides a meticulously observed account which is both fascinating in itself and capable of providing a solid basis for his own and others' analysis' British Journal of Sociology