Full Description
The fifth edition of The Criminal Process continues in the tradition of previous editions in providing an insightful and stimulating analysis of the key issues in criminal processes and procedures.
The authors draw on arguments from the law, research, policy, and principle, to present an authoritative overview of this area of study.
Contents
1: Introduction to the English criminal process
2: Towards a framework for evaluation
3: Ethics, conflicts and conduct
4: Questioning
5: Gathering evidence: reliability, privacy, and bodily integrity
6: Gatekeeping and diversion
7: Prosecutions
8: Remands before trial
9: Pre-trial issues: disclosure, delay, and abuse of process
10: Plea
11: The trial
12: Appeals and retrials
13: Circumventing the trial through preventive orders
14: Criminal process values
