Pub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2304947
Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear
Shakespeare’s First Folio included publication of Coriolanus, a play that is said to be inflected by political events at the time of its writing and still so by its publication during a period the ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2307091
Catherine Pocock
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《法律与人文》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2304945
Ian Ward
The year 1623 is not one which tends to set racing the historical pulse. Indeed, if it were not for the publication of the First Folio it would be barely remembered at all. But if we look a little ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2298001
Wojciech Engelking
In this paper the author reads the figure of Shakespeare’s Caliban from The Tempest through the lens of the legal dispute on how the inhabitants of lands colonized by European countries are legal s...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2285180
Jacques de Ville
The idea that the modern constitution can be understood as the autobiography of a people is becoming a frequently invoked metaphor. Autobiography is commonly understood as a narrative of an individ...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2281056
Kim D. Weinert
This article examines how speech and speech acts are central to Othering First Nations people in Australia. Weiner Herzog’s film, Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), centres around a fictional Dream...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2271709
Javier Krauel
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Davide Panagia and Jacques Rancière, ‘Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière’ (2000) 30(2) Diacritics 115.2 See Mónica López Lerma and Julen Etxabe, Rancière and Law (Routledge 2018).3 Desmond Manderson, Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (University of California Press 2000) 28.4 Mieke Bal, Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Toronto University Press 2002) 137.5 Ruth Hertz, ‘Almodóvar’s High Heels Revisited: A Scandalous or Thought-Provoking Portrayal of a Judge?’ (2023) 17(1) Law and Humanities 193.6 Because the democratic potential of film is exclusively framed in terms of Rancière’s thought, which emphasizes moments of rupture, it opens up the problematic of the inscription of political acts. As Aletta Norval observes, one underdeveloped aspect of Rancière’s characterization of democracy is his tendency ‘to refrain from explicitly engaging with the issues that arise after moments of rupture, when previously excluded senses of wrong become visible and alternative ways of doing things need to become institutionalized and thus inscribed into the current order.’ According to Norval, it is important to supplement Rancière’s characterization of democracy as rupture with an account of how this rupture is inscribed onto the larger political horizon. See Arletta Norval, ‘“Writing a Name in the Sky”: Rancière, Cavell, and the Possibility of Egalitarian Inscription’ in Nikolas Kompridis (ed), The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury Academic 2014) 194.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2256189
David Gurnham
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)
发表于《法律与人文》(第17卷第2期,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2263240
Sara M. Walsh
ABSTRACTIn criminology, social and legal eras are often referred to as dominated by either due process or crime control narratives. In general, crime control narratives focus on the need for tough-on-crime policies and on the terror of criminals wreaking havoc in society. By contrast, due process narratives focus on the need to move slowly and methodically through our justice process to avoid mistakes and violations of human rights. These eras swing back and forth, neither wholly related nor unrelated to the conservative/liberal pendulum of broader politics. Arguably, despite a conservative and nationalist moment in US politics, our criminal justice policy pendulum is again swinging in the due-process direction. This is evidenced in policy reforms and popular calls for policy reform such as monitoring the police, ending cash bail, legalizing marijuana, and so on. Contrary to prevailing trends, best-selling true crime books remain crime control oriented regardless of the historical/cultural era.KEYWORDS: Due processcrime controltrue crimecriminal justice policytough-on-crimecrime and popular culturecultural criminologypopular criminologymass mediabest sellers Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Truman Capote arguably invented a new style of storytelling he called the ‘non-fiction novel’. While this is disputed, it is undeniable that In Cold Blood was a best selling work that shaped true crime writing to come. See Ralph F Voss, Truman Capote and the Legacy of in Cold Blood (The University of Alabama Press 2011).2 See ibid.3 See Megan Boorsma, ‘The Whole Truth: The Implications of America’s True Crime Obsession’ (2017) 9 Elon Law Review 209.4 e.g. legally not-guilty v. factually innocent.5 ‘[H]omicides account for almost 80 percent of the total crimes recounted in the true crime books’. Alexis M Durham III, H Preston Elrod and Patrick T Kinkade, ‘Images of Crime and Justice: Murder and the “True Crime” Genre’ (1995) 23 Journal of Criminal Justice 143, 146.6 Jean Murley, The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture (Praeger Publishers 2008) 3.7 Diana Rickard, ‘Truth or Doubt: Questioning Legal Outcomes in True-Crime Documentaries’ (2022) 17 Law and Humanities 1, 3.8 Also called websleuths, armchair detectives, and cyber detectives.9 Elizabeth Yardley and others, ‘What’s the Deal with ‘Websleuthing’? News Media Representations of Amateur Detectives in Networked Spaces’ (2018) 14 Crime, Media, Culture 81.10 See Herbert Packer, The Limits of the Criminal Sanction (Stanford University Press 1968); Herbert Packer, ‘Two Models of the Criminal Process’ (1964) 113 University of Pennsylania Law Review 1.11 Packer, ‘Two Models of the Criminal Process’ 12.12 ibid 5.13 ibid 13.14 ibid.15 Kent Roach, ‘Four Models of the Criminal Process’ (1998) 89 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 671.16 Roach (n 15) 692.17 It is beyond the scope of the work here but most crime is not reporte
在犯罪学中,社会和法律时代通常被认为是由正当程序或犯罪控制叙事主导的。一般来说,犯罪控制叙事的重点是对犯罪采取严厉政策的必要性,以及对犯罪分子在社会上造成严重破坏的恐惧。相比之下,正当程序的叙述侧重于需要缓慢而有条理地通过我们的司法程序来避免错误和侵犯人权。这些时代来回摇摆,与更广泛政治的保守/自由钟摆既不完全相关,也不完全无关。可以说,尽管美国政治出现了保守主义和民族主义的时刻,但我们的刑事司法政策钟摆再次向正当程序的方向摆动。这在政策改革和公众对政策改革的呼声中得到了证明,比如监督警察、结束现金保释、大麻合法化等等。与流行的趋势相反,畅销的真实犯罪书籍仍然以犯罪控制为导向,而不考虑历史/文化时代。关键词:正当程序犯罪控制真实犯罪刑事司法政策严厉打击犯罪与流行文化犯罪学流行犯罪学大众媒体最畅销者披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。注1杜鲁门·卡波特可以说发明了一种新的叙事方式,他称之为“非虚构小说”。尽管这一点存在争议,但不可否认的是,《冷血》是一部影响了后来真正的犯罪小说的畅销书。参见Ralph F Voss, Truman Capote和在冷血中的遗产(阿拉巴马大学出版社2011)参见Megan Boorsma,《全部真相:美国对真实犯罪的痴迷》(2017)9《伊隆法律评论》第209.4期,如法律上无罪与事实上无罪。“在真实的犯罪书籍中,谋杀几乎占了全部犯罪的80%。”Alexis M Durham III, H Preston Elrod和Patrick T Kinkade,“犯罪和正义的图像:谋杀和“真实犯罪”类型”(1995)23刑事司法杂志143,146.6 Jean Murley,真实犯罪的兴起:20世纪的谋杀和美国流行文化(Praeger出版社2008)3.7 Diana Rickard,“真相或怀疑:质疑真实犯罪纪录片中的法律结果”(2022)17法律和人文1,3.8也被称为网络侦探,armchair侦探和网络侦探伊丽莎白·亚德利(Elizabeth Yardley)等人的《网络侦探是怎么回事?》网络空间中业余侦探的新闻媒体表现(2018)14犯罪,媒体,文化81.10见赫伯特·帕克,刑事制裁的限制(斯坦福大学出版社1968);赫伯特·帕克,“刑事过程的两种模式”(1964)113宾夕法尼亚大学法律评论1.11帕克,“刑事过程的两种模式”12.12同上5.13同上13.14同上15肯特·罗奇,“刑事过程的四种模式”(1998)89刑法和犯罪学杂志671.16罗奇(n 15) 692.17这超出了这里的工作范围,但大多数犯罪没有被报道,大多数报道的犯罪从未得到解决。这是使Packer的模型作为一个实际系统的模型不可行的见解之一罗奇(第15期)672.19帕克,“刑事程序的两种模式”(第10期)12.20罗伯特·菲茨杰拉德和菲比·C·埃尔斯沃思,“正当程序与犯罪控制:死亡资格和陪审团态度”(1984年)8法律和人类行为31.21 M·桑蒂斯和其他人,“为有罪和死亡堆积甲板:死亡资格的失败以确保公正性”在JR Acker, RM Bohm和CS拉尼尔(编辑),美国的死刑实验:《终极刑罚制裁的过去、现在和未来思考》(第3版,卡罗莱纳学术出版社,2014年)Richard Jones,“民粹主义宽大,犯罪控制和正当程序”(2010)14理论犯罪学331,335.23 Laura Vitis和Vanessa Ryan,“澳大利亚的真实犯罪播客:检查收听模式和听众感知”(2021)30广播和音频媒体杂志1,2.24 Lisa A Kort-Butler和Kelley J Sittner Hartshorn,“观看侦探:犯罪规划,对犯罪的恐惧,以及对刑事司法系统的态度”(2011)52社会学季刊36,48.25 Colleen M Ray和Lisa A Kort-Butler,“你所看到的就是你所得到的?调查调查背景如何塑造媒体消费与犯罪态度之间的联系”(2020)45美国刑事司法杂志914,928.26苏珊·韦纳,“真正的犯罪:事实,虚构和法律”(1993)17法律研究论坛275,287.27沃尔特·李·坎贝尔,“从严厉犯罪到聪明犯罪:21世纪治安重罪毒品犯罪的种族影响”(博士论文)。萨拉·M·沃尔什,“安全领域:危险映射和空间正义”(2015)22种族,性别和阶级122,123。 [59]哈克特和伯克:《畅销书80年:1895-1975》(第35期)[1] [m]卡波特(生于58年)11.62按照今天的标准。法院当时在这个案件中作出了不同的裁决卡波特(n 58) 293.64安德鲁T伯特,“真正的犯罪有报酬:电影和文学中的不法行为的叙述”(博士论文)。北伊利诺伊大学2017).65托德,《犯罪电影的历史》(第56期)47.66文森特·布格里奥西和柯特·金特里,《乱来:曼森谋杀案的真实故事》(W.W.诺顿公司1994年版)67他对那些更年轻、受过更多教育的警察调查其中一起谋杀案的方法和程序表示尊重Bugliosi和Gentry(1966年)167.69 Albert W . Alschuler,“辩诉交易及其历史”(1979年)79哥伦比亚法律评论1.70 Jed S . Rakoff,“为什么无辜的人认罪”纽约书评2023.12月7日访问71有一些例外,但这超出了这里的范围《在影视犯罪故事中法律形象的变化》(Peter Lang Inc. 2003).75托德,《犯罪电影的历史》(第56期)49.76,同上20.77见Lenz(第74期).78安·鲁尔,《我身旁的陌生人》(画廊图书/西蒙与舒斯特出版社,1980),第79页安·鲁尔(Ann Rule)是一位女性犯罪作家,她的读者主要是女性,而大多数已知的连环杀手都是男性。布莱恩·贾维斯写道:“从女权主义的角度来看,连环杀人与其说是对正常文明行为准则的彻底背离,不如说是对男性霸权理想的强化……连环杀手的动机是获得掌控、男子气概和控制的欲望:他的目标是支配和占有受害者的身体和思想。”如果说我们对针对妇女的暴力有什么了解的话,那就是它很普遍,而且很大程度上是私下发生的。通过这种方式,隐藏在正常表象下的暴力成为妇女日常和集体生活的一部分。毫不奇怪,真正的犯罪小说,尤其是安·鲁尔的作品,女性读者多于男性读者。的确,正是在安·鲁尔的作品中,我们看到泰德·邦迪不仅是一个男人,而且是“男人”——女人既被邦迪性吸引,又被他的求助所吸引,这让女人的生命处于危险之中。劳拉·布劳德发现,许多女性透露,她们阅读真实的犯罪故事,是为了帮助她们处理过去的暴力事件,管理现在的恐惧。劳拉·布劳德,《反乌托邦的浪漫:真实的犯罪与女性读者》(2006),《大众文化杂志》928期;贾维斯,(n 51) 333.80规则,我身边的陌生人(n 78) xviii .81警务工作本质上通常是反应性的。也就是说,警察在犯罪发生后才进入现场讽刺的是,泰德·邦迪似乎是法律与秩序政治的忠实粉丝。鲁尔向我们讲述了他对共和党政治的参与,以及他对无政府状态和大学校园里学生抗议活动的普遍混乱的极度厌恶。如果当时他成功实现了共和党的政治抱负,他可能会成为一个“法律与秩序”、“严厉打击犯罪”、以控制
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Zoe L. Tongue
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Michael Molcher, I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future (Rebellion, 2023).2 Derrick Bryson Taylor, ‘George Floyd Protests: A Timeline’ (New York Times, 5 Nov 2021) <https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html> accessed 18 Jul 2023.3 Meg Kelly, Joyce Sohyun Lee, and Jon Swaine, ‘Partially blinded by police’ (Washington Post, 14 Jul 2020) <https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/07/14/george-floyd-protests-police-blinding/> accessed 18 Jul 2023.4 Vikram Dodd and Haroon Siddique, ‘Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens given whole-life sentence’ (The Guardian, 30 Sept 2021) <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/sarah-everard-murder-wayne-couzens-whole-life-sentence> accessed 18 Jul 2023.5 Tristan Kirk, ‘Met officers justify breaking up Sarah Everard vigil as it became “anti-police protest”’ (Evening Standard, 7 Jun 2022) <https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-officers-sarah-everard-vigil-protest-arrests-prosecution-b1004602.html> accessed 18 Jul 2023.6 Molcher (n1) 66.7 ibid 37.8 James Poulter, ‘How ‘ACAB’ Became the Universal Anti-Police Slogan’ (Vice, 8 Jun 2020) <https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzv48/acab-all-cops-are-bastards-origin-story-protest> accessed 18 Jul 2023.9 Colin Groundwater, ‘A brief history of ACAB’ (GQ Magazine, 11 Jun 2020) <https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning> accessed 18 Jul 2023.10 Molcher (n1) Ch. 1.11 Pete Brook, ‘When cops raided a hip 1970s London café, Britain’s Black Power movement rose up’ (Timeline, 5 Feb 2018) <https://timeline.com/cops-raided-a-1970s-london-cafe-britains-black-power-movement-ff855e7b23f0> accessed 18 Jul 2023.12 Molcher (n1) 17–18; Jessica White, ‘Police, Press & Race in the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Disturbances’’ (History Workshop, 31 Aug 2020) <https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-history/notting-hill-carnival-disturbances/> accessed 18 Jul 2023.13 ibid.14 Molcher (n1) 35; Pat Mills (Ed), 2000 A.D. Programme 2 (IPC Magazines, 1977).15 Molcher (n1) 45.16 ibid 46.17 ibid 52.18 ibid 29–30.19 Molcher (n1) 32.20 On the punitive policies of Thatcher and subsequent governments, see: David Faulkner, ‘The End of the Beginning of an Era’ Politics and Punishment Under Margaret Thatcher’s Government’ in Martin Wasik and Sotirios Santatzoglou (Eds), The Management of Change in Criminal Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Stephen Farrall, Naomi Burke, and Colin Hay, ‘Revisiting Margaret Thatcher’s law and order agenda: The slow-burning fuse of punitiveness’ (2016) 11 British Politics 205–31.21 Molcher (n1) 94.22 ibid 90.23 ibid 121.24 Illan Rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere (Routledge, 2020) 1; 65.25 ibid 3.26 Molcher (n1) 233.27 Mark Landler, ‘“Get Rid of Them”: A Statue Falls as Britain Confronts Its Racist History’ (New York Times, 8 Jun 2020) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/world/europe/edward-colston-statue-britain-racism.html>
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