‘Standing with Soldier F’: Bloody Sunday, disrupting the degradation ceremony and the court of public opinion
Kevin Hearty
Abstract:This article merges the literatures on crime and punishment, law and performance and transitional justice to critically examine how high-profile prosecutions for historic state violence become contested in societies attempting to address the legacy of prolonged conflict. Drawing empirically from the case study of the prosecution of Soldier F for the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings in the North of Ireland, it demonstrates how legacy case prosecutions become a proxy for wider societal and political disagreement over… Show more
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