Credibility in Court: Communicative Practices in the Camorra Trials - Couverture rigide

Jacquemet, Marco

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521552516 ISBN 13 : 9780521552516

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This study analyses courtroom communicative practices in the trials of an Italian criminal organisation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Camorra criminal trials, held in Naples, involved more than a thousand people charged with belonging to a criminal organisation, the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO). In the winter of 1982–3 the NCO suffered the desertion of some of its key men who, once arrested, broke the code of silence (omertà), turned against their former associates, and collaborated with the Justice Department. In the initial set of trials their testimony was found sufficiently reliable and convincing to determine the convictions of more than 800 defendants, but in the appeal their credibility was destroyed and the majority of people convicted solely on these witnesses' testimony were acquitted. This study documents the shifting relationship between these witnesses - called pentiti - and the Justice Department. To investigate this dramatic reversal of the defendants' convictions Marco Jacquemet combines analysis of talk and power technologies with a reflection on truth and credibility as communicative representations.

Revue de presse

Review of the hardback: 'I was totally absorbed by this book. Jacquemet has that typical gift of ethnographer: he tells a good tale and he rightly does not allow his learning and academic imperatives to divert him from the task at hand.' Paul Robertshaw, Journal of Sociolinguistics

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521552516
• ISBN 13: 9780521552516
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie