Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-286410-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is then unreasonably regarded as representing the testifiers' truest or most reliable selves.
With chapters ranging from false confessions and eyewitness misidentifications to recantations from victims of sexual violence and expressions of remorse from innocent defendants at sentencing hearings, it is argued that there is a distinctive epistemic wrong being perpetrated against suspects, defendants, witnesses, and victims. This wrong involves brute State power targeting the epistemic agency of its citizens, extracting false testimony that is often life-shattering, and rendering the victims in question complicit in their own undoing. It is concluded that it is only through understanding what it means to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the criminal legal system that we can truly grasp what justice demands and, in so doing, to reimagine what is possible.
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Credibility and Testimonial Injustice
- Credibility
- Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice
- Distributive Testimonial Injustice
- Normative Testimonial Injustice
- Wide Norm of Credibility
- Moving Beyond the Standard Conception of Testimonial Injustice
- False Confessions and Agential Testimonial Injustice
- False Confessions
- Testimonial Injustice
- Extracted Testimony
- Credibility Excess
- Agential Testimonial Injustice
- Why?
- Conclusion
- Eyewitness Testimony and Epistemic Agency
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Manipulation, Deception, and Coercion
- Credibility Excess
- Other Forms of Extraction
- Moving Forward
- Conclusion
- Plea Deals and Systemic Testimonial Injustice
- Coercion
- Plea Deals
- Epistemic Deficits
- Agential Testimonial Injustice
- Conclusion
- Race, Gender, and the Multi-Directional Model of Credibility Assessments
- The Multi-Directional Model
- Race
- Gender
- Other Forms of Extraction: Recantations by Victims in Domestic Violence Cases
- Conclusion
- Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings
- Sentencing Hearings
- Parole Hearings
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
