Stephen Shute, Roger Hood, Florence Seemungal

A Fair Hearing? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book begins by showing how widely held the belief has been that ethnic minorities are discriminated against by the courts and by other agencies in the criminal justice system. It discusses the factors that contributed to this belief, including the findings of the Macpherson Report and the notion of 'institutional racism'. It then looks at the institutional setting in which the research took place, the experience of defendants and witnesses, their views about how they were treated by the criminal courts, and the views of others involved in the court process. Final chapters address the issue of sensitivity to ethnicity on the part of judges, magistrates and lawyers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134038503
• Artikelnr.: 42822712

Autorenporträt

Stephen Shute is Head of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. His research interests focus on criminal law and criminal justice, and he has been widely published in these areas.

Roger Hood was formerly the Centre for Criminological Research and is now Emeritus Professor of Criminology, and Emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. His recent research lies in three main areas: the death penalty; race and sentencing; and parole.

Florence Seemungal is a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University. Her research interests include: witness testimony; homicide studies; offender profiling; judicial sentencing; capital punishment; reasoning and decision-making in administrative justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Criminal justice in a multicultural society 2. Researching
perceptions: the study in context 3. The institutional setting ¿
characteristics of places and persons 4. The defendants' perspective and
experiences of witnesses 5. A question of confidence 6. Informed observers:
court officials and lawyers 7. The judicial and magisterial perspective 8.
A 'cultural change' 9. What still needs to be done? 10. Recent developments
and lessons for the future