Abstract
Abstract Our familiarity with criminal justice is both a benefit and a blight. It is not necessary to have stepped inside a police station, courtroom, or prison to have the sense that you already know the central institutions of criminal justice. The news media are generous in their coverage of the workings of the criminal justice system. They report individual cases, political debates, and policy developments at length. And to this factual reporting, novels, dramas, and films add a fictional dimension replete with colour, if no little poetic licence. The familiarity fed by this daily diet of criminal justice stories (fact and fictional) has certain advantages. We share a basic perception of what the police do, what a courtroom looks like, and what happens inside the prison walls. But familiarity has its dangers also. We may be less inclined to question the very existence of the criminal justice system and the power it wields over us.
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