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Speaking of Death: Narratives of Violence in Capital Trials
Ist Teil von
Law & society review, 1993-01, Vol.27 (1), p.19-58
Ort / Verlag
Beverly Hills, Calif: Law and Society Association
Erscheinungsjahr
1993
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
How are violence and pain put into legal discourse? How does law distinguish its violence-capital punishment-from other kinds of violence? Do the strategies used to differentiate legal and extralegal violence alleviate anxiety about law and the uses to which law's violence is put? This article addresses these questions through an analysis of a capital trial in which an African-American man is being retried for the murder of a young white woman. It examines the social and cultural resources used to speak about violence and to differentiate legal and extralegal violence, and it suggests that the juxtaposition of narratives about violence in capital trials arouses rather than alleviates anxiety.