Stewart Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 4200857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3963-8346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility
This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decision-makers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated? With contributors from across the world, the book opens new comparative possibilities and research agendas. The book argues that defendants, at various…
Learning from Elsewhere: From Cross‐cultural Explanations to Transnational Prescriptions in Criminal Justice. An Introduction
International audience
Explaining, Interpreting, and Prescribing: Some Tensions and Dilemmas in the Comparative Analysis of Youth Justice Cultures
This chapter reflects on the implications of a cross‐cultural empirical research study on youth justice in Italy and Wales for transnational prescription of good practice. It examines the challenges in doing comparative studies which isolate the influence of particular elements of criminal justice regimes. Such analysis may seem well suited to transnational policy prescription in that particular elements are more easily transposed than whole syst…
In Memoriam: Dr Riccardo Montana (1976–2017)
Truth-finding, procedural traditions and cultural trust in the Netherlands and England and Wales: When strengths become weaknesses
Criminal justice systems in different jurisdictions are based on different accounts as to how facts and truth are to be found. Because these accounts are often linked to procedural traditions they tend to draw normative weight from the past. Thus different criminal justice systems develop their own particular and critical points of trust where fundamental assumptions are made upon which the fact-finding capacity of the system is based. For jurisd…
Procedural traditions in flux
Socio‐legal Studies in France: Beyond the Law Faculty
This article is the third in an occasional series dealing with the development, current status, and future of socio‐legal studies in selected countries. It follows articles by Kim Economides (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Harry Arthurs and Annie Bunting (Canada). In this article we argue that in France one can identify work that corresponds to the key strands of socio‐legal research in Anglo‐American societies but that ‘socio‐legal’ as a category of …
Reforming Defence Rights in French Police Custody: A Coming Together in Europe
In April 2011 a major reform of the law regulating the police custody phase ( la garde à vue) was adopted by the French Parliament and implemented in June 2011. The new legislation confirms the right of immediate access to a lawyer in police custody and establishes a right to have that lawyer present during interrogation. This follows a series of decisions in 2010 by the European Court of Human Rights, the French Constitutional ‘Court’ ( Conseil …
Connecting legal and social justice in the neo-liberal world? The construction, interpretation and use of pre-sentence reports
The legitimacy of state-imposed punishment depends on more than the making of lawful decisions. The sentencing process is legitimated also by looking outwards beyond narrow legal criteria so as to accommodate individualized substantive justice, including some recognition of social disadvantage. Pre-sentence reports1 are the main way in which sentencing brings together these legal and social conceptions of justice. In their advice and assistance t…
Reading and writing youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales
This article draws on an ongoing comparative study of youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales to pose two questions. First, to what extent does the construction and use of social reports in the youth justice systems in the two jurisdictions conform to projected ‘new’ transnational trends in neo-liberal penal discourses? Second, in so far as differences in the influence of these discourses can be identified, how are they to be explained and…
Practice Cultures and the ‘New’ Youth Justice in (England and) Wales
This paper considers the extent to which the Government's declared intentions to unite youth justice practice cultures around a common emphasis on preventing offending through early criminal justice intervention have been realized in practice. Based on interviews with a range of practitioners in Wales in 2003/04, it examines their priorities and underlying objectives. It outlines a complex pattern of change in which concern for the welfare of you…
State, Citizen, and Character in French Criminal Process
This paper charts some major differences in the way in which evidence of the defendant's character is treated in France when compared with practice in England and Wales. Such evidence is more pervasive and visible (especially in the most serious cases) and its relevance is more broadly defined. Further, its presentation is shaped by a developed and positive conception of the French citizen. In part, these differences may be explained by differenc…
Les méthodes d'enquête proactive et le contrôle des risques
Brants Chrisje, Field Stewart. Les méthodes d'enquête proactive et le contrôle des risques. In: Déviance et société. 1997 - Vol. 21 - N°4. pp. 401-414
Judicial Supervision and the Pre-Trial Process
monitoring of the police.2 Yet, at the same time, some of the Commission's recommendations, if adopted, would signal further moves away from classical adversarial principles in the pre-trial process. In seeking to promote efficiency, the Commission recommends a more developed pre-trial process under judicial supervision, largely based on written submissions and designed to determine, or at least define, many of the key trial issues. We would see …
Introduction: Justice and Efficiency? The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice was announced by the then Home Secretary Kenneth Baker in March 1991 the day of the release of the Irishmen known as the Birmingham Six after sixteen years of wrongful imprisonment. In the decade since the previous Royal Commission on criminal justice matters, a string of miscarriages many long suspected had been publicly acknowledged. The expectation was widespread that the Commission would produce a fund…
Without the Law? Professor Arthurs and the Early Factory Inspectorate
Professor Arthurs's book, Without the Law,' is an important account of the varied forms in which law regulated nineteenth century society. Though primarily a historical work, it casts light upon a central debate in contemporary sociological and legal thought, in that it provides a significant empirical contribution to the developing interest in legal forms amongst sociologists of law. Legal forms encompass the general structure, categories, and p…
Problems of Long Term Imprisonment
Practice Cultures and the ‘New’ Youth Justice in (England and) Wales
This paper considers the extent to which the Government's declared intentions to unite youth justice practice cultures around a common emphasis on preventing offending through early criminal justice intervention have been realized in practice. Based on interviews with a range of practitioners in Wales in 2003/04, it examines their priorities and underlying objectives. It outlines a complex pattern of change in which concern for the welfare of you…
Reading and writing youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales
This article draws on an ongoing comparative study of youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales to pose two questions. First, to what extent does the construction and use of social reports in the youth justice systems in the two jurisdictions conform to projected ‘new’ transnational trends in neo-liberal penal discourses? Second, in so far as differences in the influence of these discourses can be identified, how are they to be explained and…
Truth-finding, procedural traditions and cultural trust in the Netherlands and England and Wales: When strengths become weaknesses
Criminal justice systems in different jurisdictions are based on different accounts as to how facts and truth are to be found. Because these accounts are often linked to procedural traditions they tend to draw normative weight from the past. Thus different criminal justice systems develop their own particular and critical points of trust where fundamental assumptions are made upon which the fact-finding capacity of the system is based. For jurisd…
Connecting legal and social justice in the neo-liberal world? The construction, interpretation and use of pre-sentence reports
The legitimacy of state-imposed punishment depends on more than the making of lawful decisions. The sentencing process is legitimated also by looking outwards beyond narrow legal criteria so as to accommodate individualized substantive justice, including some recognition of social disadvantage. Pre-sentence reports1 are the main way in which sentencing brings together these legal and social conceptions of justice. In their advice and assistance t…
State, Citizen, and Character in French Criminal Process
This paper charts some major differences in the way in which evidence of the defendant's character is treated in France when compared with practice in England and Wales. Such evidence is more pervasive and visible (especially in the most serious cases) and its relevance is more broadly defined. Further, its presentation is shaped by a developed and positive conception of the French citizen. In part, these differences may be explained by differenc…
Introduction: Justice and Efficiency? The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice was announced by the then Home Secretary Kenneth Baker in March 1991 the day of the release of the Irishmen known as the Birmingham Six after sixteen years of wrongful imprisonment. In the decade since the previous Royal Commission on criminal justice matters, a string of miscarriages many long suspected had been publicly acknowledged. The expectation was widespread that the Commission would produce a fund…
Problems of Long Term Imprisonment
Without the Law? Professor Arthurs and the Early Factory Inspectorate
Professor Arthurs's book, Without the Law,' is an important account of the varied forms in which law regulated nineteenth century society. Though primarily a historical work, it casts light upon a central debate in contemporary sociological and legal thought, in that it provides a significant empirical contribution to the developing interest in legal forms amongst sociologists of law. Legal forms encompass the general structure, categories, and p…
Judicial Supervision and the Pre-Trial Process
monitoring of the police.2 Yet, at the same time, some of the Commission's recommendations, if adopted, would signal further moves away from classical adversarial principles in the pre-trial process. In seeking to promote efficiency, the Commission recommends a more developed pre-trial process under judicial supervision, largely based on written submissions and designed to determine, or at least define, many of the key trial issues. We would see …
Introduction: Justice and Efficiency? The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice was announced by the then Home Secretary Kenneth Baker in March 1991 the day of the release of the Irishmen known as the Birmingham Six after sixteen years of wrongful imprisonment. In the decade since the previous Royal Commission on criminal justice matters, a string of miscarriages many long suspected had been publicly acknowledged. The expectation was widespread that the Commission would produce a fund…
Les méthodes d'enquête proactive et le contrôle des risques
Brants Chrisje, Field Stewart. Les méthodes d'enquête proactive et le contrôle des risques. In: Déviance et société. 1997 - Vol. 21 - N°4. pp. 401-414
State, Citizen, and Character in French Criminal Process
This paper charts some major differences in the way in which evidence of the defendant's character is treated in France when compared with practice in England and Wales. Such evidence is more pervasive and visible (especially in the most serious cases) and its relevance is more broadly defined. Further, its presentation is shaped by a developed and positive conception of the French citizen. In part, these differences may be explained by differenc…
Practice Cultures and the ‘New’ Youth Justice in (England and) Wales
This paper considers the extent to which the Government's declared intentions to unite youth justice practice cultures around a common emphasis on preventing offending through early criminal justice intervention have been realized in practice. Based on interviews with a range of practitioners in Wales in 2003/04, it examines their priorities and underlying objectives. It outlines a complex pattern of change in which concern for the welfare of you…
Connecting legal and social justice in the neo-liberal world? The construction, interpretation and use of pre-sentence reports
The legitimacy of state-imposed punishment depends on more than the making of lawful decisions. The sentencing process is legitimated also by looking outwards beyond narrow legal criteria so as to accommodate individualized substantive justice, including some recognition of social disadvantage. Pre-sentence reports1 are the main way in which sentencing brings together these legal and social conceptions of justice. In their advice and assistance t…
Reading and writing youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales
This article draws on an ongoing comparative study of youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales to pose two questions. First, to what extent does the construction and use of social reports in the youth justice systems in the two jurisdictions conform to projected ‘new’ transnational trends in neo-liberal penal discourses? Second, in so far as differences in the influence of these discourses can be identified, how are they to be explained and…
Reforming Defence Rights in French Police Custody: A Coming Together in Europe
In April 2011 a major reform of the law regulating the police custody phase ( la garde à vue) was adopted by the French Parliament and implemented in June 2011. The new legislation confirms the right of immediate access to a lawyer in police custody and establishes a right to have that lawyer present during interrogation. This follows a series of decisions in 2010 by the European Court of Human Rights, the French Constitutional ‘Court’ ( Conseil …
Truth-finding, procedural traditions and cultural trust in the Netherlands and England and Wales: When strengths become weaknesses
Criminal justice systems in different jurisdictions are based on different accounts as to how facts and truth are to be found. Because these accounts are often linked to procedural traditions they tend to draw normative weight from the past. Thus different criminal justice systems develop their own particular and critical points of trust where fundamental assumptions are made upon which the fact-finding capacity of the system is based. For jurisd…
Procedural traditions in flux
Socio‐legal Studies in France: Beyond the Law Faculty
This article is the third in an occasional series dealing with the development, current status, and future of socio‐legal studies in selected countries. It follows articles by Kim Economides (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Harry Arthurs and Annie Bunting (Canada). In this article we argue that in France one can identify work that corresponds to the key strands of socio‐legal research in Anglo‐American societies but that ‘socio‐legal’ as a category of …
In Memoriam: Dr Riccardo Montana (1976–2017)
Learning from Elsewhere: From Cross‐cultural Explanations to Transnational Prescriptions in Criminal Justice. An Introduction
International audience
Explaining, Interpreting, and Prescribing: Some Tensions and Dilemmas in the Comparative Analysis of Youth Justice Cultures
This chapter reflects on the implications of a cross‐cultural empirical research study on youth justice in Italy and Wales for transnational prescription of good practice. It examines the challenges in doing comparative studies which isolate the influence of particular elements of criminal justice regimes. Such analysis may seem well suited to transnational policy prescription in that particular elements are more easily transposed than whole syst…
Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility
This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decision-makers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated? With contributors from across the world, the book opens new comparative possibilities and research agendas. The book argues that defendants, at various…
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