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Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts: Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts: Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology, Book 12

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0415899257
ISBN13: 9780415899253
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 27 2012
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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