ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some perspectives on the benefits of a humanities lens for scholarship concerned with criminal procedure. Specifically, it argues that procedure has become the dominant idiom for structuring the conduct of lawful conduct. This chapter takes some of the history surrounding Jeremy Bentham’s Principles of Judicial Procedure, the first book of procedure jurisprudence published in English language, as a case study in how the texts of law and jurisprudence can and should be read alongside the techniques and media technologies of procedure, when more broadly construed. The shaping of procedure has a richer, stranger and more important history than technical accounts prioritise. As such, one of the avenues for future scholarship for those working in the traditions of the humanities might be to think through the history, politics and implications of procedure.
