The Criminal Trial in Law and Discourse

The criminal trial is a transformative institution of social justice and discursive power. The twenty-first century adversarial trial is transgressive, due largely to the increased international focus on victim rights, terrorism, therapeutic jurisprudence, law and order, and human rights. By examining the genealogy of the criminal trial as a means to justice, this book argues that the criminal trial is forged out of competing discourses of justice that include, rather than exclude, the key ...