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The Democratic Courthouse - A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity (Hardcover)
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The Democratic Courthouse - A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity (Hardcover)
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The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of
the relationship between government and the governed came to be
reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal
system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales. The
book explores the extent to which egalitarian ideals and the
pursuit of new social and economic rights altered existing
hierarchies and expectations about how people should interact with
each other in the courthouse. Drawing on extensive public archives
and private archives kept by the Ministry of Justice, but also
using case studies from other jurisdictions, the book details how
civil servants, judges, lawyers, architects, engineers and security
experts have talked about courthouses and the people that populate
them. In doing so, it uncovers a changing history of ideas about
how the competing goals of transparency, majesty, participation,
security, fairness and authority have been achieved, and the extent
to which aspirations towards equality and participation have been
realised in physical form. As this book demonstrates, the power of
architecture to frame attitudes and expectations of the justice
system is much more than an aesthetic or theoretical nicety. Legal
subjects live in a world in which the configuration of space, the
cues provided about behaviour by the built form and the way in
which justice is symbolised play a crucial, but largely
unacknowledged, role in creating meaning and constituting legal
identities and rights to participate in the civic sphere. Key to
understanding the modern-day courthouse, this book will be of
interest to scholars and students in all fields of law,
architecture, sociology, political science, psychology and
criminology.
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