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Law in Popular Belief: Myth and Reality

Edited by: Anthony Amatrudo, Regina Rauxloh

ISBN13: 9780719097836
Published: March 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £90.00



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In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called "law in context" extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession.

The authors look at a number of themes that are central to examining ways in which myths about law are formed, and how there is inevitably a constitutive power aspect to this myth making. At the same time they explore to what extent law itself creates and sustains myths. The book will be of general interest to a number of different disciplines such as legal theory, general law, criminology and sociology.

Subjects:
General Interest
Contents:
Introduction - Anthony Amatrudo and Regina E. Rauxloh

Part I: Perception shaped by traditional media
1. Criminology through the looking glass - Colin Sumner
2. What do they know of law who only cop shows know? Anthony Amatrudo
3. Regurgitating the media image: toward a phenomenology of visible in criminal justice - Matthew R Draper and David Polizzi

Part II: Perception shaped by other means
4. Kony is so 'last month': lessons from social media stunt 'Kony 2012' - Regina E Rauxloh
5. A comparative analysis of the criminal and civil justice system in England and Wales - Matthew Smith
6. Beliefs about the European Court of Human Rights in the United Kingdom Parliament - Paul Johnson
7. Coding, de-coding, and re-coding order in public art - Ronnie Lippens

Part III: Perception of those at the fringe of society
8. The legacies of Clarice Starling: myths, media and realities about the phenomenon of serial murder - David Wilson
9. Writing to Casey Anthony: imagined relationships, personal identification and autobiography in letters to a woman accused of murder - Lizzie Seal
10. The gypsy's lot: myth and reality - Robert Jago

Index