Chapter 1 Criminal Trials, Foucault, Discourse 1
The trial as contested territory 7
A note on method： ’Effective history’, discourse and legal hermeneutics 14
Is the criminal trial in crisis? 17
The adversarial criminal trial as rhetoric 19
Local and magistrates’ courts 20
Courts of therapeutic justice 22
The trial as hermeneutic： Terrorism, the victim and human rights 24
Terrorism, national security and domestic order 25
Victim rights and human rights 31
The adversarial criminal trial in transition 32
Examining the trial in history and discourse 34
Chapter 2 A Genealogy of the Trial in Criminal Law 39
The criminal trial as an institution of social power 40
The trial in customary law 42
The trial of animals 48
Ecclesiastical trials 48
Secular trials 49
The criminal trial as local governance 51
Communal rule： Hundred court and the rise of presentment 51
The general eyre 57
Commission of oyer and terminer 59
Commission o f gaol delivery 59
From inquisitorial to adversarial justice 60
Chapter 3 Shifting Boundaries： Recent Changes to Criminal Justice Policy 65
Expedient justice 66
Committal proceedings 67
The rise of summary disposal 70
Infringement and penalty notices 71
Dispensing with the jury 72
Charge bargaining 78
The law and order debate 81
Extending policing power 82
Bail 85
Control orders, ASBOs and domestic order 87
Modifying the criminal trial 92
Defences： Provocation 93
Double jeopardy 95
Victims’ lawyers 97
England and Wales 98
United States 100
Australia 108
The International Criminal Court 109
The rise of terrorism 110
Control orders - A criminal charge? 110
Non-derogating control orders and the ECHR 113
Chapter 4 The Transformative Criminal Trial Emerges 119
Rethinking the public/private dichotomy 121
Emerging human rights discourse： Victims’ rights,human rights and due process 125
Human rights under the ECHR 126
Human rights and statutory reform 133
Criminal procedure in European civil law 137
The International Criminal Court 138
Auxiliary prosecution in adversarial criminal trials 139
Adhesion proceedings 142
Therapeutic jurisprudence and problem-solving courts 143
Origins of problem-solving courts 144
The principles of problem-solving courts 145
Case study： The community court 147
Sentencing and punishment 151
Intervention programs, forum and circle sentencing 153
Victim impact statements 156
Victim’s compensation, proportionality and the sentencing process 160
Chapter 5 The Criminal Trial as Social Discourse 165
Discourse defined 167
Power, knowledge and the adversarial criminal trial 171
R v Camberwell Green Youth Court [2005] 1 All ER 999 174
Gately v The Queen (2007) 232 CLR 208 175
Crawford v Washington (2004) 541 US 36 179
The criminal trial, disciplinary power and the periphery of justice 183
Decentralised justice 186
Chapter 6 The Trial as Hermeneutic： A Critical Review 189
Adversarial, inquisitorial and integrative approaches 192
Discursive tensions： Re-asserting the adversarial model 194
History, discourse and genealogy： Displacing truth claims 200
A note on normative thinking 205
Law and social systems 207
Chapter 7 Implications for Criminal Justice Policy 211
Substantive and procedural justice 212
On discourse and power 217
Revolutionising criminal law and justice 220
Notes 226
References 232
Index 240