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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151017
SUMMARY:Prosecuting Rap Workshop
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DESCRIPTION:Violent rap lyrics are increasingly used as evidence in crimi
 nal cases in the US and (to a lesser extent) UK. Prosecutors are eager t
 o use rap verses penned by defendants because  the violent lyrics tend t
 o bolster their cases\, helping them secure convictions. However\, many 
 defence lawyers\, civil liberties groups and scholars are alarmed by the
  proliferation of the legal use of rap as evidence\, which is often prej
 udicial. Supported by the University of Manchester’s Humanities Strategi
 c Investment Fund\, this workshop brings UK and US scholars from the fie
 lds of Law\, Cultural Studies\, Criminology\, and American Studies toget
 her with lawyers and civil liberties representatives to interrogate the 
 rise of the use of rap in legal cases. The workshop will have three them
 ed roundtables:\n1) rap lyrics presented by prosecutors as evidence of a
 utobiography and confession of a crime\n2) violent rap lyrics presented 
 as evidence of threat or intent to commit crime\n3) trends in policing a
 nd gang laws that criminalize rap culture.\n
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