| NCJ Number: |
182323  |
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| Title: |
Prosecuting Violence/Reconstructing Community |
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| Journal: |
Stanford Law Review Volume:52 Issue:4 Dated:April 2000 Pages:809-871 |
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| Author(s): |
Anthony V. Alfieri |
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| Date Published: |
April 2000 |
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| Page Count: |
63 |
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Report (Study/Research) |
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Article |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
This discussion of law, violence, and community in the contemporary United States uses both jurisprudential and interdisciplinary materials to probe the sociolegal text and the historical context of racially motivated violence in two recent high-profile criminal trials in New York City and Texas. |
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| Abstract: |
The discussion emphasizes that communities stuck by violence suffer profound loss, expressed in the destruction of public discourse, reason, and citizenship. The two trials were the Central Park jogger sexual assault trials in New York City in 1990-91 and the James Byrd murder trials in Jasper, Texas, in 1998-99. The analysis focuses on the nature of prosecutorial norms and narratives, their cultural and social significance, and their impact on interracial community. The analysis suggests the need to reform prosecutorial norms and narratives to reconstruct interracial community in the aftermath of violence motivated by race. The author argues that that prosecutors and prosecutorial policies of community activism may be helpful in reconciling segregated communities that are divided by racial violence. Therefore, the challenge for prosecutors in race cases is to overcome the burden of silencing tradition and to explore the discretionary freedom of reconstructing interracial community. Footnotes |
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| Main Term(s): |
Court personnel attitudes |
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| Index Term(s): |
Bias related violence; Court procedures; Hate Crimes; New York; Prosecutorial discretion; Race relations; Racial discrimination; Texas; Violence causes |
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