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The big trial : law as public spectacle / Lawrence M. Friedman.

By: Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]Description: 225 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780700620777 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 070062077X (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 347.73/709 23
LOC classification:
  • KF220 .F75 2015
Contents:
Law and its audience -- Open to the public : the headline trial -- Political trials -- Corruption and fraud -- Was justice done? -- Tabloid trials -- Celebrity trials -- Mystery and identity -- The worm in the bud -- The reason why -- Who are we : identity and the headline trial -- Enter the media -- Instant celebrity -- A concluding word.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-210) and index.

Law and its audience -- Open to the public : the headline trial -- Political trials -- Corruption and fraud -- Was justice done? -- Tabloid trials -- Celebrity trials -- Mystery and identity -- The worm in the bud -- The reason why -- Who are we : identity and the headline trial -- Enter the media -- Instant celebrity -- A concluding word.

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