Part 3. Remorse and restoration : the role of remorse in constructing the 'ideal offender' of restorative justice / Locating the ideal defendant : punishment, violence and legitimacy / Giuseppe Maglione. Remorse in the French criminal justice system : a subterranean influence / Virginie Gautron -- Constructing remorse : interactional dimensions of finding an emotion / Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack -- Constructing ideal defendants in the pre-sentence phase : the connection between responsibility and potential remorse / Louise Victoria Johansen -- The paradoxical uses of 'culture' in judicial assessment of defendant demeanour and remorse / Irene van Oorschot -- Cultural sensitivity training, judicial feelings and everyday practice : conversations at the edge of research / Kate Rossmanith -- Part 2. Beyond remorse -- 'Remorse is not enough' : disentangling the roles of remorse and insight in the construction of the ideal defendant / Richard Weisman -- The construction of the ideal defendant : comparative understandings of the normalisation of guilt / Jacqueline S. Hodgson -- Looking for the ideal parole applicant? / Nicola Padfield -- Part 3. The political and cultural significance of remorse and responsibility -- The enactment of political cultures in the criminal court process : remorse, responsibility and the unique individual before the French cours d'assises / Stewart Field -- Punishment and the 'blind symbiosis' of legal and rehabilitation work in the making of the 'ideal' defendant / Cyrus Tata -- Remorse and restoration : the role of remorse in constructing the 'ideal offender' of restorative justice / Giuseppe Maglione.
Summary:
"This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members, and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated? The book argues that defendants, at various stages of the criminal justice process, are expected to show a (more or less) free acceptance of guilt and individual responsibility along with a display of 'appropriate' emotions, ideally including 'genuine' remorse. It examines why such expressions of individual responsibility and remorse are so important to decision-makers and the state"-- Back cover.
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