The Social World of an English Crown Court : Witnesses and Professionals in the Crown Court Centre at Wood Green Hardback
by Paul (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics) Rock
Part of the Oxford Socio-Legal Studies series
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The Social World of an English Crown Court is the first ethnographic study of a Crown Court Centre.
It also 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 analyses the major divide which exists in the life of the court between professional insiders and public outsiders.
He describes how this divide created problems for witnesses and how the project set out to alleviate this.
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/07/1993
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- ISBN:9780198258438
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/07/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198258438
