The Democratic Courthouse

A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity

Linda Mulcahy, Emma Rowden

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Routledge
01 October 2019

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.

By: Linda Mulcahy, Emma Rowden
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 762g
ISBN: 9780367191689
ISBN 10: 0367191687
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Design, Democracy and Due Process: The Geopolitics of the Courthouse 2. The Birth of a Modern Criminal Justice System 3. A shift towards democratic courthouses? 4. The Impossible Dream: The weight of tradition in orchestrating legal reform 5. The Courthouse as Machine: Technocratic Understandings of legal space 6. Hierarchies of knowledge in the articulation of design principles 7. Outsiders in the Civic Realm 8. Docks and Locks 9. Architects 10. Flexible Futures?

Linda Mulcahy is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK Dr Emma Rowden is based at the School of Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK