1st Edition
The Search for Justice in a Media Age Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
By Siobhan Holohan
Copyright 2005
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Siobhan Holohan is an Independent Scholar.
