In the Grip of the Law Trials, Prisons and the Space Between

This book contributes significantly to Law and Literature studies. Arguing for the political relevance of their work, the editors open the volume with an introduction that summarizes topical developments in law enforcement and penal politics including the 'prisonization' of American society and popular support for no tolerance approaches to crime. The fourteen essays that follow - six on trials and eight on prisons - discuss subjects ranging from the political ramifications of Captain Kidd's trials for piracy to a reading of South African prison memoirs and include treatments of prison films, courtroom dramas and works by Dickens, Shakespeare and Scott. The volume demonstrates powerfully how concepts of criminality are constructed and how literature participates in, and sometimes enhances, general discursive traditions of adversarial litigation and carcerality.

ISBN:	9783631524558
Publisher:	Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wiss
Imprint:	Peter Lang Edition
Published date:	23 Apr 2004
Language:	English
Number of pages:	292
Weight:	446g
Height:	151mm
Width:	210mm
Spine width:	22mm

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