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

Part 1: The Making of Remorse and Responsibility

1. Locating the Ideal Defendant: Punishment, Violence and Legitimacy
Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata

2. Remorse in the French Criminal Justice System: A Subterranean Influence
Virginie Gautron

3. Constructing remorse: Interactional dimensions of finding an emotion
Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack

4. Constructing Ideal Defendants in the Pre-Sentence Phase: The Connection Between Responsibility and Potential Remorse
Louise Victoria Johansen

5. The Paradoxical Uses of âCultureâ in Judicial Assessment of Defendant Demeanour and Remorse.
Irene Van Oorschot

6. Cultural Sensitivity Training, Judicial Feelings, and Everyday Practice: Conversations at the edge of research
Kate Rossmanith


Part 2: Beyond Remorse

7. Remorse is Not Enough: Disentangling the Roles of Remorse and Insight in the Construction of the Ideal Defendant
Richard Weisman

8. The Construction of the Ideal Defendant: Comparative Understandings of the Normalisation of Guilt
Jacqueline S. Hodgson

9. Looking for the Ideal Parole Applicant?
Nicola Padfield

Part 3: The Political and Cultural Significance of Remorse and Responsibility

10. The Enactment of Political Cultures in Criminal Court Process: Remorse, Responsibility and the Unique Individual Before the French cours dâassises
Stewart Field

11. Punishment and the âBlind Symbiosisâ of Legal and Rehabilitation Work in the Making of the âIdealâ Defendant
Cyrus Tata

12. Remorse and Restoration: The Role of Remorse in Constructing the âIdeal Offenderâ of Restorative Justice
Giuseppe Maglione