Search for Justice in a Media Age - Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward

List of contents

Contents: 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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: HOLOHAN, Siobhan Holohan, Holohan Siobhan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815398219
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9821-9
• No. of pages: 181
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Conflict of Laws, Private International Law & Conflict Of Laws, Private international law and conflict of laws