Protest, Justice, Law and the Media

Catalog description

Examines research on protests, political deviance, trials/law and justice, and critiques some of the media representations of related ideas. Investigates global social movements, political protests and nascent political trials. Analyzes varied justifications for defining action as diversity, deviance or crime and the reasons for using criminal, civil or alternative (positive) sanctions (especially via indigenous peoples). Explores the encompassing meaning of a political trial. Many people throughout the world find everyday life to be a trial, especially those placed on the margins of globalization. Expands the research on media and trials that usually have been examined narrowly by legal institutions in North America and reinforced by hegemony.