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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: big trial
    sub title: law as public spectacle
  name:
    name part: Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir)
    name part: 1930-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 225 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The trial of O.J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in thrall. The names (and the crimes) may change, but the appeal is enduring, and why this is, how it works, and what it means are what Lawrence Friedman investigates in The Big Trial. What is it about these cases that captures the public imagination? Are the "headline trials" of our period different from those of a century or two ago? And what do we learn from them, about the nature of our society, past and present? To get a clearer picture, Friedman first identifies what certain headline trials have in common, then considers particular cases within each grouping. The political trial, for instance, embraces treason and spying, dissenters and radicals, and, to varying degrees, corruption and fraud. Celebrity trials involve the famous, whether victims, as in the case of Charles Manson, or defendants as disparate as Fatty Arburkle and William Kennedy Smith, but certain high-profile cases, such as those Friedman categorizes as tabloid trials, can also create celebrities. The fascination of whodunit trials can be found in the mystery surrounding the case. Are we sure about O.J. Simpson? What about Claus von Bulow, tried, in another sensational case, for sending his wife into a coma? An especially interesting type of case Friedman groups under the rubric worm in the bud. These are cases, such as that of Lizzie Borden, that seem to put society itself on trial. Tey raise fundamental social questions and often suggest hidden and secret pathologies. And finally, a small but important group of cases proceed from moral panic, the Salem witchcraft trials being the classic instance, though Friedman also considers recent examples. Though they might differ in significant ways, these types of trials also have important similarities. Most notably, they invariably raise questions about identit…
  table of contents: Law and its audience -- Open to the public : the headline trial -- Political trials -- Corruption and fraud -- Was justice done? -- Tabloid trials -- Celebrity trials -- Mystery and identity -- The worm in the bud -- The reason why -- Who are we : identity and the headline trial -- Enter the media -- Instant celebrity -- A concluding word.
  note: Lawrence M. Friedman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Trials
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  classification: KF220 .F75 2015
  classification: 347.73/709
  identifier: 9780700620777
  identifier: 070062077X
  identifier: 9780700620784
  identifier: 0700620788
  identifier: 2014045937
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141120
    record change date: 20170927140138.0
    record identifier: in00003792862