Description
Book SynopsisThis collection examines contemporary challenges to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
The chapters, written by established academics, rising stars and practising lawyers, seek not only to highlight these challenges but to offer solutions. The book examines issues with legal assistance in the police station, concerns relating to juror decision making and problems in and presented by both virtual hearings and the advent of the Single Justice Procedure Notice. The work also examines challenges surrounding vulnerability in the criminal justice system. Here, diversity includes vulnerability in the criminal trial, neurodivergence as well as issues with diversity and marginalisation in the criminal justice system as a whole. The book also discusses matters centred around sexual offending including the attrition rate in rape cases as well as the recent development of vigilante' paedophile hunters and their acceptance as a viable limb of the criminal justice syst
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Table of cases
Table of legislation
1 Introduction
ED JOHNSTON
2 Legal assistance at the police station: Shifts and contradictions in the context of Covid-19
ED JOHNSTON AND ED CAPE
3 Jury decision making in the criminal trial
REBECCA K. HELM AND MADELEINE MILLAR
4 The jury on trial: Guilty or not guilty? Investigating jury trial issues through a comparative approach
CRISTINA D’ANIELLO
5 Contemporary issues in criminal court procedure
JENNI WARD
6 Vulnerability in the criminal trial
SAMANTHA FAIRCLOUGH
7 Caught in the net: Police powers of investigation and the risks for autistic individuals
TOM SMITH
8 Diversity in the criminal justice system
JAMES PICKLES
9 Listening to ‘Leading Voices’: Using expert insight to identify challenges to, and suggestions for the improvement of, rape investigation and prosecution in England and Wales
BENJAMIN A. HINE, ANTHONY D. MURPHY, EMMA WILLIAMS AND BIMSARA KENNATH WIDANARALALAGE DON
10 Paedophile hunters and the road to injustice
KAREN WALTON AND REBECCA PENFOLD
11 Prisoners’ human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities
ANASTASIA KARAMALIDOU
12 ‘Regulated from a spirit of hostility’: Independence and the Criminal Cases Review Commission
JON ROBINS
Bibliography
Index
