Criminal Accusation

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Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls rituals that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks. This book frames a socio-legal field directed to practices of accusation. The focus is the powers of an accusatory lore that creates subjects within the confines of legally authorized spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Accusation: Landscapes of Exclusion 2 Apparatuses of Criminal Accusation 3 Avowal and Criminal Accusation 4 The Violent Rhetoric of Accusation: Cicero and the Marcus Ameleus Scaurus Case 5 Cultural Grammars of Accusation: Thomas of Monmouth's Blood Libel Accusations 6 Creating Crime: Accusatory Entryways to Criminal Justice 7 The Lore of Criminal Accusation 8 Criminal Justice and Cape Law's Persons 9 Forget Crime: Accusation, Governance and Criminology 10 The Emergence of Habitual Criminals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Implications for Criminology 11 The Subjects of Criminal Identification Afterword Index