Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prisons and prison cells. Penal aesthetics and the pains of imprisonment / Yvonne Jewkes -- Architecture and contested space in the development of the modern prison / Helen Johnston -- A simple idea in architecture: on the principles of projecting prisons / Gabriela �Switek -- The watchman in the vineyard: historical traces of judicial and punitive practices in Lincoln / Nicholas Temple -- Courthouses and courtrooms. Back to the future? the challenge of the past for courthouses of tomorrow / Linda Mulcahy -- Lecture theatre: echoes of the Palais de Justice in legal education / Keith Crawford -- Virtual courts and putting "summary" back into "summary justice" / Emma Rowden -- Constitution Hill: just space or space of justice? / Zarina Patel and Clinton David van der Merwe -- The architecture and operation of the Imperial Chinese yamen / Peter Blundell Jones -- Civic and societal order. Violent stone: the city of dialectical justice / Jonathan Charley -- The spatial registers of justice / Richard Patterson -- Gimme shelter: mass incarceration and the criminology of the housing boom / Jonathan Simon -- Drawing conclusions: Fort Rupert, British Columbia in 1863 / John Bass -- Repurposing with a vengeance: a dance of restrained acts towards justice / Catherine Hamel -- Philosophical questions of propriety: architecture, justice, conflict, measure / Peter Carl -- Politike Arete: or the origins of civic justice / Ren�ee Tobe -- Ensemble performances: architects and justice in Athenian drama / Lisa Landrum -- The architecture of Lincoln Cathedral and the institution of justice / John Hendrix -- Politics and architecture / Raymond Geuss.

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