Institutional Failures

Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27695-6 (ISBN)

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The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University men’s lacrosse controversy are best understood in the context of the three major socio-legal institutions in which the drama played out. The legal system, Duke University, and the news media all struggled to respond to and handle the case, tinged as the events were with race, sex, violence, class, privilege, and notions and perceptions about sports. The problems, missteps, mistakes, and injustice in the case resulted from each institution's failure to operate properly, from the incentives built into each institution that affected individual behavior, and from the inability of each institution to communicate and cooperate with the others. To understand the Duke lacrosse controversy is to study these institutions and to answer questions about the performance of each-to learn what each did right and wrong and why, and to consider how each can improve in the future. By examining the actions of these institutions and the individuals within them, these essays consider the role each played in the case, how each contributed to the crisis and to its resolution, the ways in which they interacted with one another, and the lessons this case teaches about the appropriate functioning of each institution.

Howard M. Wasserman is an Associate Professor of Law at the Florida International University College of Law, where he has written and taught extensively on civil rights and constitutional litigation, the First Amendment, and sports law.

Part 1 Overview; Chapter 1 An Institutional Perspective on the Duke Lacrosse Case, Howard M.Wasserman; Part 2 Legal System; Chapter 2 When Good Prosecutors Go Bad, Angela J.Davis; Chapter 3 Duke Lacrosse, Prosecutorial Misconduct, and the Limits of the Civil Justice System, SamKamin; Part 3 Duke University and American Higher Education; Chapter 4 The Perils of Academic Groupthink, KCJohnson; Chapter 5 The Duke Lacrosse Saga, Robert M.O’Neil; Chapter 6 In the Shadow of Duke, Ellen J.Staurowsky; Part 4 News Media; Chapter 7 Justice Delayed, RachelSmolkin; Chapter 8 Not Just Sloppy Journalism, but a Profound Ethical Failure, Jane E.Kirtley; Chapter 9 Covering the Notorious Case, Craig L.LaMay;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-27695-2 / 1138276952
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27695-6 / 9781138276956
Zustand	Neuware