Download or read book The Criminal Trial in Law and Discourse written by T. Kirchengast and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the modern criminal trial is the result of competing discourses of justice, from human rights to state law and order, that allows for the consideration of key stakeholder interests, specifically those of victims, defendants, police, communities and the state.