Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

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Braunmühl, Caroline

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294 Seiten

Englisch

Taylor & Franciserschienen am27.02.2012

This book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.mehr

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KlappentextThis book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-415-89925-3

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatGenäht

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr2012

Erscheinungsdatum27.02.2012

Seiten294 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 164 mm, Höhe 242 mm, Dicke 23 mm

Gewicht536 g

Artikel-Nr.19481769

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Part I: Introduction Part II: Theoretical Perspective Part III: The Corpus of Cases Part IV: Ethnicizing Prosecutions and Defenses: Culture´ and Gender´ in Trial Parties´ Argumentative Strategies and in the Debate About the Cultural Defense´ 1. Biases and Blindspots in the Debate 2. Cultural Profiling: The Patriarchal Other-First Case Study 3. Cultural Defense´ I: The Oppressed Third World Woman-Second Case Study 4. Cultural Defense´ II: The Patriarchal Other-Third Case Study 5. Conclusion: Cultural Information or Gendered Colonial Discourse? Part V: Resistance/Instabilities: The Spectrum of Discursive Politics in Trials Involving Cultural Evidence´ and the Involuntary Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse 6. Contesting Cultural Evidence´: Adversarial Opposition or Mutual Collusion? 7. Witnesses and Hegemonic Consensus 8. Beyond Mere Resistance´: The Spectrum of Instabilities Fracturing Hegemonic Trial Discourse and What Difference They Make Part VI: Conclusion: Practical/Theoretical Implications.mehr