The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
著者
書誌事項
The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
Ashgate, c2005
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute to a collective understanding of class, nation, race and gender? In this book, Siobhan Holohan explores media representations of law and order in the context of notions of multi-culturalism and victim-centred politics. Two high profile cases - the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the US trial of the British au-pair, Louise Woodward - are examined. Holohan argues that the stories built up around Woodward and Lawrence - the organization of public discourse around a sacrificial figure - have contributed to exclusionary patterns of social order. The book offers a perceptive account of what makes some criminal legal cases prone to scrutiny and spectacle and provides a vivid illustration of the presence of power relations in legal decisions. In conclusion, the author draws on the model of the Macpherson report to propose a more inclusive form of social and legal judgement that takes into account social inequalities.
目次
- Introduction: society, regulation and representation. Gender and Power: The family as moral centre of social organization
- Symbolic transformations
- The scapegoat mechanism. Reading Racism: Ethnic subjectivity and identity reformation
- The violence of discourse
- Criminal justice and society
- Conclusion: Toward an ethic of representation
- Bibliography
- Index.
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