How To Get Away With Killing? A Social Science Counter-investigation
In this discussion, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin presents key themes from his recent book Death of a Traveller.
In this discussion, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin presents key themes from his recent book Death of a Traveller.
Tuesday 14 December 2021 | 1 hour 42 minutes 9 seconds
The book engages in a 'counter-investigation' into a fatal encounter between armed French police and a member of the travelling community. In doing so, it raises deep and troubling questions about the quality of interactions between marginalized communities and official police and judicial processes; and about power, prejudice, and differing constructions of truth. It will be of interest to lawyers, criminologists, anthropologists and sociologists, and indeed to a general audience.