Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts : cultural defenses and prosecutions / by Caroline Braunmühl.
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TextSeries: Routledge advances in criminology ; 12Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xii, 281 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415899253Other title: Colonial discourse and gender in United States criminal courtsSubject(s): Cultural defense (Law) -- United States | Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | Criminal justice, Administration of -- United StatesDDC classification: 347.73008 LOC classification: KF9619 | .B67 2012| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 347.73008 BRA 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0000393 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theoretical perspective -- The corpus of cases -- Ethnicizing prosecutions and defenses : "culture" and "gender" in trial parties' argumentative strategies and in the debate about "the cultural defense" -- Biases and blindspots in the debate -- Cultural profiling : the patriarchal other : first case study -- "Cultural defense" I : the oppressed third world woman : second case study -- "Cultural defense" II : the patriarchal other : third case study -- Conclusion: cultural information or gendered colonial discourse? -- Resistance/instabilities : the spectrum of discursive politics in trials involving "cultural evidence" and the involuntary subversion of hegemonic discourse -- Contesting "cultural evidence" : adversarial opposition or mutual collusion? -- Witnesses and hegemonic consensus -- Beyond mere "resistance" : the spectrum of instabilities fracturing hegemonic trial discourse and what difference they make -- Conclusion: practical/theoretical implications.
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