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Author |
: Robert M. Cover |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472064959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472064953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative, Violence, and the Law by : Robert M. Cover
Essential writings of the leading scholar of law and violence
Author |
: Gary Bellow |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 1998-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472085190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472085194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law Stories by : Gary Bellow
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Author |
: Robin West |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472103652 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472103652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative, Authority, and Law by : Robin West
Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law
Author |
: Shonna L. Trinch |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027218552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027218551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse by : Shonna L. Trinch
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims' accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be 'changing their stories,' in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas' Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence investigates the discourse of protective order interviews, where women apply for court injunctions to keep abusers away. In these encounters, two different versions of violence, each influenced by a range of ethnolinguistic, intertextual and cultural factors, are always produced. This ethnography of Latina women narrating violence suggests that before victims even get to trial, their testimony involves much more than merely telling the truth. This book provides a unique look at pre-trial testimony as a collaborative and dynamic social and cultural act.
Author |
: Robert M. Cover |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1975-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300032528 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300032529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Justice Accused by : Robert M. Cover
What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America. "Cover's book is splendid in many ways. His legal history and legal philosophy are both first class. . . . This is, for a change, an interdisciplinary work that is a credit to both disciplines."--Ronald Dworkin, Times Literary Supplement "Scholars should be grateful to Cover for his often brilliant illumination of tensions created in judges by changing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jurisprudential attitudes and legal standards. . . An exciting adventure in interdisciplinary history."--Harold M. Hyman, American Historical Review "A most articulate, sophisticated, and learned defense of legal formalism. . . Deserves and needs to be widely read."--Don Roper, Journal of American History "An excellent illustration of the way in which a burning moral issue relates to the American judicial process. The book thus has both historical value and a very immediate importance."--Edwards A. Stettner, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A really fine book, an important contribution to law and to history."--Louis H. Pollak
Author |
: David Alan Sklansky |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2021-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674259690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674259696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Pattern of Violence by : David Alan Sklansky
A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague our entire criminal justice system—from mass incarceration to police brutality. We take for granted that some crimes are violent and others aren’t. But how do we decide what counts as a violent act? David Alan Sklansky argues that legal notions about violence—its definition, causes, and moral significance—are functions of political choices, not eternal truths. And these choices are central to failures of our criminal justice system. The common distinction between violent and nonviolent acts, for example, played virtually no role in criminal law before the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet to this day, with more crimes than ever called “violent,” this distinction determines how we judge the seriousness of an offense, as well as the perpetrator’s debt and danger to society. Similarly, criminal law today treats violence as a pathology of individual character. But in other areas of law, including the procedural law that covers police conduct, the situational context of violence carries more weight. The result of these inconsistencies, and of society’s unique fear of violence since the 1960s, has been an application of law that reinforces inequities of race and class, undermining law’s legitimacy. A Pattern of Violence shows that novel legal philosophies of violence have motivated mass incarceration, blunted efforts to hold police accountable, constrained responses to sexual assault and domestic abuse, pushed juvenile offenders into adult prisons, encouraged toleration of prison violence, and limited responses to mass shootings. Reforming legal notions of violence is therefore an essential step toward justice.
Author |
: Lois S. Bibbings |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2014-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135309695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135309698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Binding Men by : Lois S. Bibbings
Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England. It does so by focusing upon five important legal cases, all of which were binding not only upon the males involved but also upon future courts and the men who appeared before them. The subject matter of Prince (1875), Coney (1882), Dudley and Stephens (1884), Clarence (1888) and Jackson (1891) ranged from child abduction, prize-fighting, murder and cannibalism to transmitting gonorrhoea and the capture and imprisonment of a wife by her husband. Each case has its own chapter, depicting the events which led the protagonists into the courtroom, the legal outcome and the judicial pronouncements made to justify this, as well as exploring the broader setting in which the proceedings took place. In so doing, Binding Men describes how a particular case can be seen as being a part of attempts to legally limit male behaviour. The book is essential reading for scholars and students of crime, criminal law, violence, and gender. It will be of interest to those working on the use of narrative in academic writing as well as legal methods. Binding Men’s subject matter and accessible style also make it a must for those with a general interest in crime, history and, in particular, male criminality.
Author |
: Sara B. Cobb |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2013-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199826209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019982620X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Speaking of Violence by : Sara B. Cobb
In the context of ongoing or historical violence, people tell stories about what happened, who did what to whom and why. Yet frequently, the speaking of violence reproduces the social fractures and delegitimizes, again, those that struggle against their own marginalization. This speaking of violence deepens conflict and all too often perpetuates cycles of violence. Alternatively, sometimes people do not speak of the violence and it is erased, buried with the bodies that bear it witness. This reduces the capacity of the public to address issues emerging in the aftermath of violence and repression. This book takes the notion of "narrative" as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution. Distinct from conflict theories that rely on accounts of attitudes or perceptions in the heads of individuals, this narrative perspective presumes that meaning, structured and organized as narrative processes, is the location for both analysis of conflict, as well as intervention. But meaning is political, in that not all stories can be told, or the way they are told delegitimizes and erases others. Thus, the critical narrative theory outlined in this book offers a normative approach to narrative assessment and intervention. It provides a way of evaluating narrative and designing "better-formed" stories: "better" in that they are generative of sustainable relations, creating legitimacy for all parties. In so doing, they function aesthetically and ethically to support the emergence of new histories and new futures. Indeed, critical narrative theory offers a new lens for enabling people to speak of violence in ways that undermine the intractability of conflict
Author |
: Jennifer Andrus |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2020-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108839525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108839525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narratives of Domestic Violence by : Jennifer Andrus
Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions.
Author |
: David Correia |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2013-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Properties of Violence by : David Correia
Through the compelling story of the Tierra Amarilla conflict, David Correia examines how law and property, in general, and a Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, in particular, have been constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land grants to sheepherders and agriculturalists. After the U.S.-Mexican War the area saw rampant land speculation and dubious property adjudication with nearly all the grants being rejected by U.S. courts or acquired by land speculators. Of all the land grant conflicts in New Mexico's history, Tierra Amarilla is one of the most sensational, with numerous nineteenth-century speculators ranking among the state's political and economic elite and a remarkable pattern of resistance to land loss by heirs in the twentieth century. Correia narrates a long and largely unknown history of property conflict in Tierra Amarilla characterized by nearly constant violence-night riding and fence cutting, pitched gun battles, and tanks rumbling along the rutted dirt roads of northern New Mexico. The legal geography he constructs is one that includes a remarkable cast of characters: millionaire sheep barons, Spanish anarchists, hooded Klansmen, Puerto Rican freedom fighters-or as J. Edgar Hoover, another of the characters in Correia's story would have called them, "terrorists." By placing property and law at the center of his study, "Properties of Violence" first reveals and then examines a central irony: violence is not the opposite of law but rather is essential to its operation.