{"id":1445,"date":"2021-10-29T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/?page_id=1445"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:09:19","slug":"17th-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/17th-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"17th November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cWilding, Wolf packs and Wrongful convictions\u201d: A CDA of the US media coverage during the lead up to<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>the 1990 Central Park Five trial <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Leanne Bartley (Universidad de Granada \/ Simon Fraser University)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIn recent decades, there has been a notable surge in wrongful convictions (WCs) with experts<br \/>\nestimating that, in the US alone, 3-4%, though most likely more, of the prison population are factually<br \/>\ninnocent of any wrongdoing. On the surface, this seems quite low. However, these calculations mean<br \/>\nthat those currently incarcerated in the US for a crime they never committed or that never occurred is<br \/>\nanything between 69,000-92,000 people: not such a low number after all. This paper examines WCs,<br \/>\ntaking its findings from a case that has gained international recognition following the recent<br \/>\ndocumentary on Netflix entitled When They See Us and, thus, is concerned with the wrongful conviction<br \/>\nof teenagers Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise,<br \/>\nalso known as the Central Park Five (CP5). These five individuals, who were teenagers at the time,<br \/>\nwere wrongfully convicted of the rape and attempted murder of Patricial Meili in Central Park, New<br \/>\nYork, in 1989. Here, I examine the newspaper coverage of their case in the lead up to trial with the aim<br \/>\nof exploring how the media portrayal of the accused as well as the victim in question may have played<br \/>\na role in the wrongful conviction of the CP5. In doing so, I also hope to raise awareness to the<br \/>\nprevalence of wrongful convictions more generally.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Biodata<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nDr Bartley began working in academia in 2008 after obtaining a research contract at the University of<br \/>\nJaen. Since then, she has worked at Liverpool Hope University (UK), Swansea University (UK), as well<br \/>\nas Granada University (Spain). At present, she has a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship and is<br \/>\nbased between Simon Fraser University (Canada), Cardiff University (UK) and Granada University<br \/>\n(Spain) working on postdoctoral research under the supervision of Professor Maite Taboada and<br \/>\nProfessor Encarnaci\u00f3n Hidalgo Tenorio. With her main research interests being CDA, SFL and<br \/>\nForensic Linguistics, in her current research project she examines language use in the legal context<br \/>\nand, specifically, her interests lie with cases of wrongful conviction or sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWilding, Wolf packs and Wrongful convictions\u201d: A CDA of the US media coverage during the lead up to the 1990 Central Park Five trial Leanne Bartley (Universidad de Granada \/ [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}