RT Article
T1 Negotiating Metropolitan Spaces and Identities: A Historian's Reading of Tactics in 1920's New York Homicide Trials
JF Social justice
VO 32
IS 1
SP 62
OP 74
A1 D'Cruze, Shani
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158003
AB Part of a special issue on emerging imaginaries of regulation, control, and repression. The writer discusses New York homicide trials in the early 1920s in terms of their function as moments when the law made violence visible and the conditions of that visibility were that violence became understandable as a product of everyday sociality in working-class neighborhoods. She states that the courtroom asked people to explain their metropolitan living strategies and that witnesses had to translate everyday relationships, circumstances, and violent events into a narrative format acceptable in a antagonistic judicial forum whose culture and often whose language was not their own. She points out that some failed miserably but that others who could take up legible and acceptable subject stances had greater narrative success.
K1 Immigrants
K1 Psychological Stress
K1 Civil Law
K1 Criminal Law
K1 Homicide
K1 Crime
K1 History
K1 Courts
K1 Group Identity
K1 New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
K1 History of murder trials