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Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts - Caroline (Universitat Hamburg Braunmuhl - Bog

- Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

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This book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415899253
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 294
  • Udgivet:
  • 27. februar 2012
  • Størrelse:
  • 236x159x21 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 534 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024
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This book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.

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