Second Chance for Justice The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas
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Biographical note
Dr Asher Flynn is a Lecturer and Researcher in Criminology at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Her research encapsulates a diverse range of socio-legal and critical criminology concerns, with a particular focus on plea bargaining, sentencing, criminal prosecutions and the criminal justice system. Asher has published in a range of high quality, high impact criminology, socio-legal and law journals. A Second Chance for Justice is her first book.Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Lecturer and Researcher in Criminology at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. She researches in the area of the law’s response to lethal intimate partner violence and the effects of law reform in Australian and international jurisdictions. Dr Fitz-Gibbon has published on the operation and effects of homicide law and sentencing reform with a key focus on gender and justice."This is an important and highly readable socio-legal book which communicates effectively the promise and the failures of our systems of justice. The book is successful at many levels. It subjects the legal processes at every stage to sharp forensic analysis in the best academic tradition. It lays out in rigorous detail the personal, professional and procedural frailties that combined to devastating consequence in ultimately vain attempts to recreate the past. It relates an incredibly human story in which the personalities and character of the dramatis personae spring from the page. The book brings into sharp focus the human frailty and systemic weaknesses of criminal justice processes in Queensland, and Alabama. Without closure being possible, readers are confronted with their own sensibilities, predispositions and prejudices as they consider whether justice is merely elusive or tragically illusory."– Professor Mike McConville, Founding Dean and Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong"In this unique work, the authors have painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative concerning the interaction of law and criminal justice. The way that the use of discretion and the constraints of cost came to structure the very idea of what justice-according-to-law means in Alabama and Queensland, and what it can mean in justice systems worldwide, is explored in magnificent style."– Professor Jeremy Horder, Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law, King’s College London"As Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon note, the Watson case continues to provoke controversy. A Second Chance for Justice is an engaging read, and provides new perspectives on some of the key participants in the case." - Victoria Colvin, Deakin Law Review, 18:1 (2013), 207-210."A Second Chance for Justice is an impressive feat of investigative journalism, backed by a staggering amount of primary and secondary research and is, above all, acommendable study on that famously elusive ideal — justice." - Daniel Reynolds, Alternative Law Journal, 38:4.