Through the Distorted Lens - Couverture rigide

Hum, Fiona C.

 
9781032876320: Through the Distorted Lens
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1032876328 ISBN 13 : 9781032876320
Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This monograph analyses controversial trial outcomes (both civil and criminal) through a post structural feminist lens of narrative creation. It considers how narratives are constructed in trials and how the admission or exclusion of evidence can lead to the formation of distorted narratives that produce flawed outcomes.

The book discusses contemporary evidential challenges surrounding the societal and legal framing of 'truth' within the Anglo-American trial process. It applies a post-structural feminist approach to examine how facts and rules are interpreted through the construction of legal stories. Chapters are organised to address key themes in high profile cases from around the globe. These include the cases of George Cardinal Pell, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Lawyer X, Brittany Higgins and Kathleen Folbigg. This book departs from previous publications, such as those with a traditional feminist perspective, in that it presents both sides of the distorted lens where a defendant is written into a story as both guilty and innocent. Its focus on cognitive and narrative processes provides insight into the role of narratives and evidence construction in the trial process, and how such processes are used by legal advocates.

This book would be of interest to scholars of legal psychology, criminology and socio-legal studies. It will also interest scholars and students of evidence law, especially those studying miscarriages of justice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Fiona Hum is Senior Lecturer, Monash University, teaching Evidence for over twenty years. Fiona is a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria, practising for many years prior to academia. Her research interests include evidence, wrongful convictions, discrimination and injustice issues.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032876328
ISBN 13 
9781032876320
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
Routledge
https://www.routledge-ny.com/

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