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Author Holohan, Siobhan.

Title The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward / Siobhan Holohan
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
©2005

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Description 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : society, regulation and representation -- 1. The family as moral centre of social organization -- 2. Symbolic transformations -- 3. The scapegoat mechanism -- 4. Ethnic subjectivity and identity reformation -- 5. The violence of discourse -- 6. Criminal justice and society -- Conclusion : toward an ethics of representation
Summary "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 an 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-165) and index
Subject Woodward, Louise -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Lawrence, Stephen, 1974-1993.
Woodward, Louise.
Mass media and criminal justice -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Mass media and criminal justice -- United States -- Case studies.
Mass media and race relations.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Mass media and crime -- Great Britain.
Free press and fair trial.
Crime and the press -- Great Britain.
LC no. 2004021039
ISBN 0754643808