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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T04:30:00.002Z",
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  "textContent": "**Daniel Newman** , **Cardiff University** , has published _Law and Justice in Song Murder Ballads and Popular Music_ (Routledge):\n\n> This 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.\n\nProfessor Newman discuisses his book on JLS Blog.\n\n--Dan Ernst",
  "title": "Newman's \"Law and Justice in Song\"",
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