Criminal Defence and Procedure Comparative Ethnographies in the Unit

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 dif

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Criminal Defence and Procedure Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States Thomas Scheffer Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Kati Hannken-Illjes Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany

Alexander Kozin Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

© Thomas Scheffer, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-23022-4

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Contents

List of Figures

vi

1 Introducing Procedure

1

2 Field Access as an Ongoing Accomplishment

24

3 Procedural Past: Binding and Unbinding

50

4 Procedural Future: The Politics of Positioning

83

5 Procedural Presence: Failing and Learning

117

6 Courts as Ways of Knowing

138

Postscript

165

Notes

173

References

182

Index

201

v

List of Figures

6.1 Graphic representation of a US courtroom 6.2 Graphic representation of an English courtroom 6.3 Graphic representation of a German courtroom

vi

143 145 148

1 Introducing Procedure

In this book we would like to offer a comparative ethnomethodological study of the criminal defense work in three legal settings: German, American (US), and English. The study is based on the programmatic ethnome