The Camorra criminal trials, held in Naples, involved more than a
thousand people charged with belonging to a criminal organisation,
the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO). In the winter of 1982-3 the
NCO suffered the desertion of some of its key men who, once
arrested, broke the code of silence (omerta), turned against their
former associates, and collaborated with the Justice Department. In
the initial set of trials their testimony was found sufficiently
reliable and convincing to determine the convictions of more than
800 defendants, but in the appeal their credibility was destroyed
and the majority of people convicted solely on these witnesses'
testimony were acquitted. This study documents the shifting
relationship between these witnesses - called pentiti - and the
Justice Department. To investigate this dramatic reversal of the
defendants' convictions Marco Jacquemet combines analysis of talk
and power technologies with a reflection on truth and credibility
as communicative representations.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
August 2009 |
Authors: |
Marco Jacquemet
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
340 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-12128-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Sociolinguistics
|
LSN: |
0-521-12128-0 |
Barcode: |
9780521121286 |
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