What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and
Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute
to a collective understanding of class, nation, race and gender? In
this book, Siobhan Holohan explores media representations of law
and order in the context of notions of multi-culturalism and
victim-centred politics. Two high profile cases - the murder of
Stephen Lawrence and the US trial of the British au-pair, Louise
Woodward - are examined. Holohan argues that the stories built up
around Woodward and Lawrence - the organization of public discourse
around a sacrificial figure - have contributed to exclusionary
patterns of social order. The book offers a perceptive account of
what makes some criminal legal cases prone to scrutiny and
spectacle and provides a vivid illustration of the presence of
power relations in legal decisions. In conclusion, the author draws
on the model of the Macpherson report to propose a more inclusive
form of social and legal judgement that takes into account social
inequalities.
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