Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility

Stewart Field is Professor of Law at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK. Cyrus Tata is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Strathclyde University Law School, UK, where he is director of the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice.

• Part 1: The Making of Remorse and Responsibility 1. Locating the Ideal Defendant: Punishment, Violence and LegitimacyStewart Field and Cyrus Tata 2. Remorse in the French Criminal Justice System: A Subterranean InfluenceVirginie Gautron3. Constructing remorse: Interactional dimensions of finding an emotionSharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack4. Constructing Ideal Defendants in the Pre-Sentence Phase: The Connection Between Responsibility and Potential RemorseLouise Victoria Johansen5. The Paradoxical Uses of ‘Culture’ in Judicial Assessment of Defendant Demeanour and Remorse. Irene Van Oorschot6. Cultural Sensitivity Training, Judicial Feelings, and Everyday Practice: Conversations at the edge of researchKate RossmanithPart 2: Beyond Remorse7. Remorse is Not Enough: Disentangling the Roles of Remorse and Insight in the Construction of the Ideal DefendantRichard Weisman8. The Construction of the Ideal Defendant: Comparative Understandings of the Normalisation of Guilt Jacqueline S. Hodgson9. Looking for the Ideal Parole Applicant?Nicola Padfield Part 3: The Political and Cultural Significance of Remorse and Responsibility10. The Enactment of Political Cultures in Criminal Court Process: Remorse, Responsibility and the Unique Individual Before the French cours d’assisesStewart Field 11. Punishment and the ‘Blind Symbiosis’ of Legal and Rehabilitation Work in the Making of the ‘Ideal’ DefendantCyrus Tata12. Remorse and Restoration: The Role of Remorse in Constructing the ‘Ideal Offender’ of Restorative JusticeGiuseppe Maglione

Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant is a dazzling contribution. It takes the debate in important new directions, and poses a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom.