Part 1: The Making of Remorse and Responsibility 1. Locating the Ideal Defendant: Punishment, Violence and Legitimacy Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata 2. Remorse in the French Criminal Justice System: A Subterranean Influence Virginie Gautron 3. Constructing remorse: Interactional dimensions of finding an emotion Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack 4. Constructing Ideal Defendants in the Pre-Sentence Phase: The Connection Between Responsibility and Potential Remorse Louise Victoria Johansen 5. The Paradoxical Uses of 'Culture' in Judicial Assessment of Defendant Demeanour and Remorse. Irene Van Oorschot 6. Cultural Sensitivity Training, Judicial Feelings, and Everyday Practice: Conversations at the edge of research Kate Rossmanith Part 2: Beyond Remorse 7. Remorse is Not Enough: Disentangling the Roles of Remorse and Insight in the Construction of the Ideal Defendant Richard Weisman 8. The Construction of the Ideal Defendant: Comparative Understandings of the Normalisation of Guilt Jacqueline S. Hodgson 9. Looking for the Ideal Parole Applicant? Nicola Padfield Part 3: The Political and Cultural Significance of Remorse and Responsibility 10. The Enactment of Political Cultures in Criminal Court Process: Remorse, Responsibility and the Unique Individual Before the French cours d'assises Stewart Field 11. Punishment and the 'Blind Symbiosis' of Legal and Rehabilitation Work in the Making of the 'Ideal' Defendant Cyrus Tata 12. Remorse and Restoration: The Role of Remorse in Constructing the 'Ideal Offender' of Restorative Justice Giuseppe Maglione