{"product_id":"9781032964836","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Law and Justice in Song : Murder Ballads and Popular Music by Daniel Newman","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 16\/02\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book examines the murder ballad form, songs about death and killing, from a legal history perspective. It is held that taking on the long history of the murder ballad is a way that we can understand how death and killing in song has a function in dealing with the world around us. The book integrates law and humanities scholarship with diverse musical case studies to construct a typology of murder ballads and thus conceptualise the central messages of how murder ballads have treated death and killing. Drawing on a cultural form in which assessment and consideration of death and killing are so vigorously and richly enacted gives lawyers a guide to how those who do not see these matters through a primarily legal lens might understand this part of their world. The study will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Criminal Law, Legal History, Socio-Legal Studies, Criminology and Musicology. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368451486069,"sku":"9781032964836","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781032964836","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}