This article, based upon analysis of the extensive media reporting over the ten year period 1993-2003 and developing theoretical ideas of ‘mediatized public crisis’ as a form of ‘society in action’, explores how the mainstream British media ‘performed’ the Stephen Lawrence case and thereby transformed it into a ‘mediatized public crisis’ embroiling as it did so powerful institutions of state (police, judiciary, government) and unleashing institutional reflexivity, social reforms and cultural change. It was here that the symbolic and moral charge of the case became generalized outwards to different publics in society, galvanizing emotions and appealing to a sense of moral solidarity subjunctively oriented to how society should or could be. The Stephen Lawrence case unfolded within the arenas and processes of the criminal justice system, but the public story of ‘Stephen Lawrence’, the central concern of this article, was principally played out within the nation’s media (and some international media too). policies targeting institutionalized racism within Britain’s most powerful organizations of state and civil society. This particular murder, exceptionally, prompted widespread re-examination of questions of (in)justice, cultural identity and continuing racism in British society and it eventually initiated processes of institutional reflexivity including government. There have been many racist murders in Britain both before and since the killing of Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old black student, in April 1993.
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Our new-historicist approach to these early samples of detective fiction seeks to throw light on the discursive negotiations which may be invoked in an explanatory narrative of the polar representations of one and the same professional class shortly after the creation of the metropolitan police. The American boy treated to the long-established traditions of institutionalized education in the Old World, and the English child worker, whose father was imprisoned for debt, were a Victorian version of the Prince and Pauper plot. Auguste Dupin, who appears in three stories of the former - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), and "The Purloined Letter" (1844) - and low-born, illiterate Bucket, who wreaks havoc upon an ancient aristocratic family in Bleak House, were hatched within nests of widely different social and cultural provenance. The detective as a literary character was co-fathered within a brief interval from each other by Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens, but Le Chevalier C.
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