The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward / by Siobhan Ho...
The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward / by Siobhan Ho...
The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward / by Siobhan Holohan.
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
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N070.44936/4
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English
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p. 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 -- Conclusi...
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
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England
Date Published
c2004.
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"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 Lawre...
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The search for justice in a media age : reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward / by Siobhan Holohan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N070.44936/4
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74VKPJA5kLMg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPJA5kLMg
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0754643808
9780754643807 (alk. paper)
0754643808 (alk. paper)
9780754643807 :
0754643808 :
9780754643807
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070.449364
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991019583249702626
