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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Drawing on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Jennifer Lackey shows how in the American criminal legal system testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. She urges the need to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the system.
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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
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With the combination of incisive analysis, straightforward prose, and fierce passion that has become her trademark, Jennifer Lackey argues that the American criminal justice machine uses coerced speech to systematically undermine the epistemic agency of defendants-and by extension, the pursuit of truth and the very nature of law itself. This is a troubling and deeply important work by one of the most important epistemologists now working.
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Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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A ground-breaking critical study of testimony in the criminal legal system
Draws on social psychology and academic studies of criminal law as well as philosophy
Points the way forward to fairer treatment of participants in the legal system
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ISBN
9780192864109
Publisert
2023
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
224
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