Didier Fassin: Death of a Traveller
Death of a Traveller
Buch
- A Counter Investigation
- Polity Press, 07/2021
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781509547401
- Bestellnummer: 10349523
- Umfang: 160 Seiten
- Gewicht: 304 g
- Maße: 223 x 144 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.7.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm where he was hiding since he failed to return to prison after temporary release. The officers claim self-defense. The relatives, present at the scene, contest that claim. A case is opened, and it concludes with a dismissal that is upheld on appeal. Dismayed by these decisions, the family continues the struggle for truth and justice.Giving each account of the event the same credit, Didier Fassin conducts a counter-investigation, based on the re-examination of all the available details and on the interviews of its protagonists. A critical reflection on the work of police forces, the functioning of the justice system, and the conditions that make such tragedies possible and seldom punished, Death of a Traveller is also an attempt to restore to these marginalized communities what they are usually denied: respectability.