Law in Popular Belief: Myth and Reality

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title page......Page 5
Copyright information......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Table of contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Part I: Perception shaped by traditional media......Page 18
Part II: Perception shaped by other means......Page 20
Part III: Perception of those at the fringe of society......Page 24
Three conclusions......Page 26
3.  Unveil the myth about law-.making......Page 27
Reference......Page 28
I Perception shaped by traditional media......Page 29
1 Criminology through the looking-glass......Page 31
Crime through the looking-glass......Page 34
Criminal law, land and social destruction......Page 37
Whigs and hunters......Page 41
Maintaining class assets, Marx and resistance to the new order of private property......Page 42
Behind the criminological mirror where things are upside down and in reverse......Page 43
References......Page 45
2 What do they know of law who only cop shows know?......Page 46
Generating social censures......Page 48
Victims in the criminal justice system......Page 51
Television depiction......Page 52
Practical matters: real-.world policing and the law courts......Page 57
Practical matters......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 61
References......Page 62
Introduction......Page 65
Teaching the reduction......Page 72
Reconsidering media ethics......Page 77
References......Page 80
II Perception shaped by other means......Page 83
Introduction......Page 85
Background: Invisible Children......Page 87
Background: Uganda......Page 88
The northern Uganda perspective......Page 89
The American perspective......Page 90
Criminal justice and military intervention......Page 92
African stereotypes......Page 93
Tangible actions......Page 94
Not-.so-.active activism......Page 95
The myth of simple stories......Page 97
 Belief in online activism......Page 99
The power of voice......Page 100
Concluding remarks......Page 101
References......Page 102
Introduction......Page 105
The Civil Procedure Rules 1998......Page 107
The Family Procedure Rules 2010......Page 112
The Criminal Procedure Rules......Page 115
Magna Carta......Page 119
Reforms......Page 120
Statutes......Page 122
Introduction......Page 123
Representing the ECtHR as a ‘risk’......Page 125
(Mis)representing the ECtHR in the House of Commons......Page 129
(Mis)representing the ECtHR in the House of Lords......Page 133
Representing the ECtHR as biased......Page 135
List of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and former European Commission of Human Rights......Page 139
References......Page 140
Introduction......Page 141
Public art and urban regeneration......Page 145
Forward!......Page 150
Concluding remarks......Page 154
References......Page 155
III Perception of those at the fringe of society......Page 157
8 Criminology and the legacies of Clarice Starling......Page 159
A serial killer thriller......Page 162
Starling as a character......Page 163
Fact in the fiction......Page 165
Dissenting voices......Page 167
Talking with serial killers......Page 169
The structural tradition......Page 172
Widening the analysis –. serial murder in Britain......Page 173
Clarice’s legacy and some personal statements......Page 174
References......Page 175
9 Letters to Casey Anthony, a woman accused of murder......Page 177
The case......Page 179
The ‘bad mother’ narrative......Page 180
Casey Anthony as a celebrity......Page 181
Letters and letter writing......Page 182
Reactions to media coverage......Page 184
Imagined relationships......Page 186
Personal identification and autobiography......Page 188
Implications for cultural criminology......Page 190
References......Page 194
Introduction......Page 197
Who is the ‘gypsy’?......Page 198
Myth and the ‘gypsy’......Page 199
A romantic figure?......Page 200
Myth 1: ‘Gypsy as child snatcher’......Page 201
Myth 2: ‘Gypsy as thief’......Page 203
Myth 3: ‘Gypsy as land grabber’ –. national wars and local battles......Page 205
Planning applications, Surrey......Page 209
Normandy village......Page 210
Charmaine Valler......Page 211
Conclusion......Page 213
Notes......Page 214
References......Page 215
Index......Page 221