Description
| Product ID: | 9781138357532 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Search for Justice in a Media Age |
| Subtitle: | Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward |
| Authors: | Author: Siobhan Holohan |
| Page Count: | 182 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Crime and criminology, Law and society, sociology of law, Private international law and conflict of laws, Crime & criminology, Law & society, Private international law & conflict of laws |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-31 |
