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Title Rap on Trial: the battle to keep lyrics out of courtrooms Media name/outlet The Week Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 25/01/22 Description Separate research from the University of Manchester identified more than 60 cases between the mid-2000s and 2020 where rap music was used by prosecutors “as autobiographical confessions to crimes, threats of violence or proof of gang affiliation”, reported DJ Mag.
The rise in the use of such alleged evidence in UK courts has coincided with the growing popularity of drill music, according to Eithne Quinn, a senior lecturer at the university and the head of a research project called Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture.
The “heightened moral panic about drill and violence, with all its power and baggage”, is being “pulled into the courtroom”, Quinn told the magazine.URL https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/crime/955521/rap-on-trial-battle-stop-lyrics-courtrooms Persons Eithne Quinn
Keywords
- rap music
- justice system
- drill music