Abstract
This chapter analyses Raffaele Sollecito’s marginalisation through the prism of media justice, a concept that interfaces with broader principles of social justice and the specific requirements of criminal justice. The analysis mainly centres on the experiences of innocence supporters, a group of individuals who dedicated themselves to campaigning for the exoneration of Knox and Sollecito. Perceptions that the main news media had wronged the pair galvanised the innocence campaign, but it was Knox who was the prime reason for their involvement. While much of the media coverage was prejudicial, especially in the early stages, it is also the case that without the widespread publicity, it is unlikely that there would have been an innocence campaign in aid of Knox and crucially also Sollecito.
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Gies, L. (2016). ‘My Name Is Raffaele Sollecito and Not Amanda Marie Knox’: Marginalisation and Media Justice. In: Gies, L., Bortoluzzi, M. (eds) Transmedia Crime Stories. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59004-6_10
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