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Author:   Stephen Shute (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Florence Seemungal (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781138861442

ISBN 10:   1138861448
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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