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Irene van Oorschot, Sitting and Speaking Wrongly? On Racialized Differences in Court and the Less-than-Ideal Defendant Section IV: Admitting Guilt: Meanings and Functions 9. Jackie Hodgson, Court Rituals and Constructions of Individual Responsibility: Comparative Understandings of Guilt in the Criminal Process 10. Cyrus Tata, How Do Criminal Justice Disconnections Help to Generate Ideal Clientele? Section V: In Search of the Ideal Defendant 11. Nicola Padfield, Remorse, Responsibility and the Parole Board of England and Wales 12. Giuseppe Maglione, Remorseful offenders: a Critical History of the 'Ideal Offender' in Restorative Justice 13. Mojca M Plesnicar, In search of the remorseful murderer: an analysis of court reasoning.