• Preface


• Abbreviations


• Glossary of French terms


• Overview


• Part 1: Criminal justice traditions and trends


• 1. Perspectives on Adversarial and Inquisitorial Procedure


• 2. The Demise of Procedural Fairness


• 3. Terrorism, Security, and the Management of Risk


• Part 2: Prosecution


• 4. The Role and Status of the Prosecutor


• 5. The Changing Prosecution Role


• Part 3: Defense


• 6. European Influences on the Pre-trial Defense Role


• 7. Custodial Legal Advice: Towards a Pan-European Model?


• Part 4: Responding to conviction errors


• 8. Miscarriages of Justice and Procedural Change: L'affaire d'Outreau


• 9. Mixing Inquisitorial Functions within an Adversarial Process: The CCRC


• 10. The CCRC, the Applicant and her Lawyer: A Disruption of Procedural Models


• Bibliography


• Index

Jacqueline S. Hodgson is Professor of Law as well as Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick.

Adopting a comparative approach,The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice looks at the ways that criminal justice trends in Britain and in France, as well as those rooted in European human rights instruments, have influenced the core roles of criminal justice actors and the everyday functioning of the criminal process in courts and police stations. It analyzes adversarial and inquisitorial traditions, their representation in contemporary criminal justice in Britain and in France, and how the increased politicization of criminal justice has eroded fundamental rights in the name of efficiency and security.