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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:54 AM PST I. Bennett Capers, Hofstra University School of Law, is publishing Crime, Legitimacy, Our Criminal Network, and the Wire in volume 8 of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2011).Here is the abstract. It perhaps comes as no surprise that, at a gathering of four criminal law professors over drinks and dinner, the subject would turn to the HBO series The Wire. The four of us - Susan Bandes, Jeff Fagan, David Alan Sklansky, and myself - were part of a larger group of about twenty or so criminal professors invited to participate in the University of Chicago's Criminal Justice Roundtable, and after a full day of discussing each other's scholarship, we were eager to discuss something else. So we raved about The Wire. Then we lamented the fact that, to our knowledge, there had never been a law conference devoted to The Wire, or even a symposium issue in a law journal. The series certainly raises enough criminal law and criminal procedure questions to warrant such a project. But even more importantly, The Wire does something else. I once argued that "law and order" shows can have a type of "de-shadowing" effect. There is the justice administered by the courts. And there is the justice that the courts imagine they are regulating. Law and order shows, especially the ones that give the illusion of being police procedurals, are uniquely positioned to critique this justice. Law and order shows, at their best, bring out of the shadows the justice that actually exists. No show does this better than The Wire.Download the article from SSRN at the link. |
Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:51 AM PST Alafair S. Burke, Hofstra University School of Law, is publishing I Got the Shotgun: Reflections on The Wire, Prosecutors and Omar Little. in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. Download the article from SSRN at the link. |
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