Finding The Guilty One: Media Sensationalism, Defendant's Performance, and Jury Equity
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Raffaele Cutolo
Raffaele Cutolo received his PhD in English Studies in 2013, when he was also awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus. His main research interests include law and literature, performance studies and the postmodern revision of the fairy tale. He is a member of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura) and ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
Abstract
Lisa Ballantyne's debut novel The Guilty One (2012) “tackles the ambitious, gritty, and emotive subject of child-on-child murder through a consuming psychological lens.” Starting from a cultural analysis that considers post-Bulger England's jurisprudence in relation to children who kill, this paper investigates on how the jury's decision-making process is influenced by factors that intervene in the trial phases. Pre-trial media sensationalism and during-trial child defendant's performance may affect the jury's vision of the case, and may alter the perspective from which the case is looked at. Three main factors will be taken into account: media sensationalism, the defendant's performance at trial, and the possibility of the jury to bypass the letter of the Law in the name of equity, all of which partake in the jury's decision-making process, potentially determining the final verdict.
About the author
Raffaele Cutolo received his PhD in English Studies in 2013, when he was also awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus. His main research interests include law and literature, performance studies and the postmodern revision of the fairy tale. He is a member of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura) and ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Masthead
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- Modifying the Past: Nietzschean Approaches to History
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