Representing O.J.- Murder, Criminal Justice and Mass Culture

By: Gregg Barak

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

This book takes a broad-gauged cultural studies approach to understanding the "trial of the century." A ground-breaking work on the cultural study of news reporting, entertainment, and the administration of criminal justice. This book defined the field in the emerging area of news-making criminology. PART I. SCIENCE, SUBJECTIVITY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Overview. 1. People v. Simpson: Some (Ir)Relevant Variables, Research and the Future. Gilbert Geis. 2. Evidence, Probabilities, and Legal Standards for the Determination of Guilt: Beyond the O.J. Trial Brian Forst. 3. Juror Reciprocal Antagonism and the Intermittent Explosive Disorder: A Plausible Clinical Diagnosis of the O.J. Case. Laurence Armand French. 4. The Social Science Significance of the O.J. Simpson Case. Steven E.Barkan. PART II CRIME, CONSUMPTION, AND MASS MEDIA. 5. Slash and Frame. Jeff Ferrell. 6. The Real Menace to Society. Earl Ofari Hutchinson. 7. O.J. and the Internet: The First Cybertrial. Cecil Greek. 8. O.J. Simpson and the Trial of the Century? Uncovering Paradoxes in Media Coverage. Lynn S. Chancer. 9. Media, Discourse, and the O.J. Simpson Trial: An Ethnographic Portrait. Gregg Barak. 10. Media Madness as Crime in the Making: On O.J. Simpson, Consumerism, and Hyperreality. Bruce A. Arrigo. PART III. EXPRESSIONS AND PERCEPTIONS: On Race, Class, Gender and Justice. 11. Ethnic Expressive Style and American Public Opinion: The O.J. Simpson Case. E.L.Cerroni-Long. 12. The Influence of Racial Similarity on the O.J. Simpson Trial. K.D. Mixon, Linda A. Foley, Kelly Orme. 13. Reality Bites: Black Protectionism, White Denial and O.J. Katheryn K. Russell. 14. The Matter of O.J. Simpson in Black and White and Green. Risdon N. Slate. PART IV. CONTRADICTIONS AND DEBATES: On Cameras in Court, Reasonable Doubt, Jury Nullification, and Fair Trials. 15. Undercurrents of Judicial Policy: Demystifying the Third Branch of Government and the O.J. Simpson Case. Steve Russell. 16. A Not-So-Radical Proposal: Eliminate Private Criminal Defense. Thomas J. Bernard. 17. On Reactionary Reactions to Race and the O.J. Simpson Verdict. James A. Chambers. 18. The O.J. Simpson Trial, Jury Legitimacy, and the Continuing Debate. James N. Gilbert. 19. Whatever Happened to the Fair Trial? The American Justice System's Obsession with Punishment. Stephen J. Perrello, Jr.. RECOMMENDED: Upper division undergraduate courses in law and society, administration of criminal justice and journalism. Graduate classes in law and society, sociology of law, crime, justice and the media, journalism, administration of criminal justice, sentencing, punishment.