1st Edition

Courthouse Architecture, Design and Social Justice

By Kirsty Duncanson, Emma Henderson Copyright 2022
246 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection interrogates relationships between court architecture and social justice, from consultation and design to the impact of material (and immaterial) forms on court users, through the lenses of architecture, law, socio-legal studies, criminology, anthropology, and a former senior federal judge. International multidisciplinary collaborations and single-author contributions traverse a... Read more

Foreword (Judith Resnik)  Introduction (Kirsty Henderson and Emma Duncanson  Part I: Building Justice  1. The Kununurra Courthouse (Martyn Hook and Elizabeth Grant)  2. The architecture of law courts: How concepts of justice - light, transparency, access and equality - drove the design of new and renovated courthouses for federal courts in Australia (Michael Black)  Part II: Justice Buildings  3. Refractions of Legal Justice (forensic precinct Series 2) (Peter Rush)  4. Indigenous courthouse and courtroom design in Australia: Case studies, design paradigms and the issue of cultural agency Murphy, Grant and Anthony  5. Interpellation By Design: Could Court Buildings Influence Jury Decision Making? (Kirsty Duncanson and Emma Henderson)  6. The Child Sexual Assault Trials: Reconceptualising the Design of Court Spaces According to Trauma Informed Principles (Annie Cossins and Emma Rowden)  Part III: Justice Outwith Buildings  7. 'And that's why street wise complainants now always give evidence behind screens, live': Exploring the Intensive Affects of the Court Room (Anna Carline, Clare Gunby and Jamie Murray)  8. Digital Justice and Video Links: Connecting and Conflating courtroom and carceral space (Carolyn McKay)

Biography

Kirsty Duncanson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia.

Emma Henderson is Director of Graduate Research in the Law School at La Trobe University, Australia.