Architecture and Justice - Simon, Jonathan

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Résumé :
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of, and the individuals subject to, justice. With its multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial, legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the spaces that constitute their settings.

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List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Foreword by Baroness Vivien Stern, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1. Prisons and Prison Cells, 1. The Aesthetics and Anaesthetics of Prison Architecture, 2. Architecture and Contested Space in the Development of the Modern Prison, 3. A Simple Idea in Architecture: On the Principles of Projecting Prisons, 4. The Watchman in the Vineyard: Historical Traces of Judicial and Punitive Practices in Lincoln, Part 2. Courthouses and Courtrooms, 5. Back to the Future? The Challenge of the Past for Courthouses of Tomorrow, 6. Lecture Theatre: Echoes of the Palais de Justice in Legal Education, 7. Virtual Courts and Putting `Summary? back into `Summary Justice?: Merely Brief, or Unjust?, 8. Constitution Hill: Just Space or Space of Justice?, 9. The Architecture and Operation of the Imperial Chinese Yamen, Part 3. Civic and Societal Order, 10. Violent Stone: The City of Dialectical Justice ? Three Tales from Court, 11. The Spatial Registers of Justice, 12. Gimme Shelter: Mass Incarceration and the Criminology of the Housing Boom, 13. Drawing Conclusions: Fort Rupert, British Columbia in 1863, 14. Repurposing With A Vengeance: A Dance of Restrained Acts Towards Justice, Part 4. Philosophical Questions of Propriety, 15. Architecture, Justice, Conflict, Measure, 16. Politik? Aret?: Or the Origins of Civic Justice, 17. Ensemble Performances: Architects and Justice in Athenian Drama, 18. The Architecture of Lincoln Cathedral and the Institution of Justice, 19. Politics and Architecture, Index