No last rights : the denial of justice and the promotion of myth in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.

Includes bibliography and references

96 people died at Hillsborough. The bereaved and survivors remain traumatised by the disaster. Lord Chief Justice Taylor found the main cause to be overcrowding and the main reason to be "failure in police control". How could the police admit "fault" yet the inquests return verdicts of accidental death? How can the news media, television drama and academic research contine to promote the myths of crowd violence, drunkenness and hooliganism? This publication provides a detailed and critical analysis of the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster examining the evidence before the courts and the extensive media coverage. It breaks new ground in its analysis of the context of disasters and it exposes the inadequacies of a legal system ill-equipped to deal with deaths in controversial circumstances. It makes extensive recommendations including a complete review of inquests and a fundamental revision of media self-regulation