Criminal Defence and Procedure

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introducing Procedure

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 1-23

3. Field Access as an Ongoing Accomplishment

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 24-49

4. Procedural Past: Binding and Unbinding

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 50-82

5. Procedural Future: The Politics of Positioning

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 83-116

6. Procedural Presence: Failing and Learning

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 117-137

7. Courts as Ways of Knowing

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 138-164

8. Postscript

   • Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin

   Pages 165-172

9. Back Matter

   Pages 173-208

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Procedure is not just a programme or a nexus of formalities. It is something done by legal experts and lay participants in a highly concerted ensemble. Procedure frames and advances all law-relevant activities. This book, written by three authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, provides an in-depth comparison of criminal defence work in different legal cultures. Via an ethnographic comparison, this book also shows how defence work responds to the challenges of different procedural regimes and how it contributes to their individual outcomes. Criminal Defence and Procedure opens up new horizons for legal comparison, inviting novel understandings of procedural law as well as possibilities of legal reform.

• ethnography
• Germany
• legal culture
• politics
• work

• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  Thomas Scheffer

• Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany

  Kati Hannken-Illjes

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

  Alexander Kozin

THOMAS SCHEFFER is Heisenberg Scholar at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and previously led the law-in-action Research Group at the Free University Berlin. He has conducted ethnographic and discourse analytical research on migration control, social work, legal casework, and parliamentary inquiries. His research interests include micro-sociology, sociology of knowledge, and cultural comparison. Scheffer is spokesperson of the section 'sociology of law' in the German Sociological Association.

KATI HANNKEN-ILLJES is a Senior Lecturer at the Department for German Linguistics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. Her research focuses on legal rhetoric, the relation of narrating and arguing and the didactics of teaching interpersonal communication.
 
ALEXANDER KOZIN is Research Fellow at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. His areas of specialization include communication studies, phenomenology, translation theory, semiotics, and law and society. Currently, he is working on a project that examines criminal law in relation to 'subjects with limited culpability'. 

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