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The democratic courthouse : a modern history of design, due process and dignity / Linda Mulcahy and Emma Rowden

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BookPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020Description: xx, 349 pages : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367208356.Subject(s): Justice, Administration of -- England -- History | Justice, Administration of -- Wales -- History | Courthouses -- England -- History | Law

Contents:

Designing for democracy : the geopolitics of the courthouse

Part I. Towards a democratic courthouse

The birth of a modern criminal justice system

A shift towards democratic courthouses?

Part II. Professional voices

Moving targets : the challenges of the Beeching reforms for Whitehall

Architectural agency in imagining the democratic courthouse

The courthouse as machine : technocratic understandings of legal space

Part III. Lay voice?

Who was consulted? hierarchies of knowledge in the articulation of design principles

Danger and democracy : outsiders in the public sphere

Docks and locks in criminal courts

Flexible futures

Note(s):

"A Glasshouse book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions (1st Quarter of 2024)

Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Reference	R 347.42 M954d 2020 (Browse shelf)	Room use only		53044QC

Total holds: 0