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The Big Trial : Law as Public Spectacle /

The trial of O.J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in thrall. The names (and the crimes) may change, but the appeal is enduring - and why this is, how it wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.