The language of racism and the criminal justice system

dc.contributor.advisorMurray, Christina
dc.contributor.authorKoen, Raymond Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-14T12:34:11Z
dc.date.available2023-09-14T12:34:11Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.date.updated2023-09-14T12:33:40Z
dc.description.abstractThe question of racial bias in the criminal justice system has long been a controversial one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other forms of bias. Whereas the conventional emphasis has been on the structures of bias, the focus here is upon the language of bias in the criminal justice system, that is, upon the way in which white judicial officers speak to or about working-class people of colour. Traditionally, the analysis of biased language has been concerned with the patent racist utterance or opinion, identified according to the positivist techniques of content analysis. However, of late an important shift has taken place in the language of racism, to a discourse formally free of blatant racist insults. The analysis of the language of this "new racism" in the criminal justice system is the central focus of this thesis.
dc.identifier.apacitationKoen, R. A. (1995). <i>The language of racism and the criminal justice system</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKoen, Raymond Anthony. <i>"The language of racism and the criminal justice system."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKoen, R.A. 1995. The language of racism and the criminal justice system. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Koen, Raymond Anthony AB - The question of racial bias in the criminal justice system has long been a controversial one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other forms of bias. Whereas the conventional emphasis has been on the structures of bias, the focus here is upon the language of bias in the criminal justice system, that is, upon the way in which white judicial officers speak to or about working-class people of colour. Traditionally, the analysis of biased language has been concerned with the patent racist utterance or opinion, identified according to the positivist techniques of content analysis. However, of late an important shift has taken place in the language of racism, to a discourse formally free of blatant racist insults. The analysis of the language of this "new racism" in the criminal justice system is the central focus of this thesis. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - public law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 1995 T1 - The language of racism and the criminal justice system TI - The language of racism and the criminal justice system UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKoen RA. The language of racism and the criminal justice system. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38609en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Public Law
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.subjectpublic law
dc.titleThe language of racism and the criminal justice system
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelLLM
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