Court Interpreters and Fair Trials

• Main Author: Dingfelder Stone, John Henry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human rights.; Criminology.; Social justice.; Trials.; International criminal law.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Natural language processing (Computer science).; Human Rights and Crime .; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Juries and Criminal Trials.; International Criminal Law .; Criminal Justice.; Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely undermine the fairness of a criminal proceeding. I...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Right to an Interpreter
• Chapter 3. Courtroom Interpreting
• Chapter 4. The Right to a Fair Trial
• Chapter 5. Interpreter Error and its Implications
• Chapter 6. Systemic Issues
• Chapter 7. Analysis
• Chapter 8. Conclusions and Proposals.