Questions of guilt and innocence in the Victorian criminal trial of Robert Farquharson and the Fact Before Theory internet campaign Tyson, Danielle 2009, Questions of guilt and innocence in the Victorian criminal trial of Robert Farquharson and the Fact Before Theory internet campaign, Current issues in criminal justice, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 181-204. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads tyson-questionsofguilt-2009.pdf Published version application/pdf 536.22KB 210 Title Questions of guilt and innocence in the Victorian criminal trial of Robert Farquharson and the Fact Before Theory internet campaign Author(s) Tyson, Danielle orcid.org/0000-0001-9439-567X Journal name Current issues in criminal justice Volume number 21 Issue number 2 Start page 181 End page 204 Total pages 23 Publisher University of Sydney, Law School Place of publication Sydney, N.S.W. Publication date 2009-11 ISSN 1034-5329 Keyword(s) filicide courts guilt innocence internet campaign Summary This article follows the Victorian trial of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons who drowned after the car he was driving veered off the road into a dam on Fathers Day 2005. It discusses the implications of the use of forensic photographs by the prosecution at the trial, which supported the jury’s finding of guilt, on the Fact Before Theory website launched by an anonymous supporter of Robert Farquharson in the trial’s aftermath. This discussion is situated in light of recent work that considers how user generated technologies (blogging, social networking etc.) are fast becoming a key way for family and friends of victims of crime to intervene in the legal process of deciding questions of guilt and innocence. Drawing on the Internet Campaign to free RobertFarquharson as a case study, the author concludes that the narratives and representations of justice and injustice that are being mobilised by the public in this new 24/7 media landscape present a major challenge for the courts. Language eng Field of Research 160203 Courts and Sentencing 1602 Criminology 1801 Law 1608 Sociology Socio Economic Objective 940403 Criminal Justice HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2009, University of Sydney Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30091371 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 17 Feb 2017, 11:51:21 EST Sat, 18 Feb 2017, 04:00:20 EST Mon, 20 Feb 2017, 07:07:56 EST Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 05:06:44 EST Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 13:16:20 EST Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 13:18:01 EST Thu, 20 Jul 2017, 16:48:03 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 215 Abstract Views, 208 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 17 Feb 2017, 11:51:21 EST

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