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Contaminated Water and Leukemia in Woburn, Ma

Contaminated Water and Leukemia in Woburn, Ma ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Domagalski / S /eptember REVIEW1999 ESSAY Review Essay The Failings of Civil Action THERESA A. DOMAGALSKI Florida Institute of Technology Jonathan Harr. A Civil Action. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Scott Rudin, Robert Redford, and Rachel Pfeffer, Producers. A Civil Action. 1998. 118 minutes. (Distributed by Touchstone Pictures). In youth, the rules involved in the pursuit of justice are often learned from child’s play in the form of games such as cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians, where protagonists and antagonists are readily discernible and the tools of justice include badges and guns, horses and arrows. In these children’s games, the righteous are expected to prevail while the guilty are to make retribution. The pursuit of justice by Joe and Jane Citizen in the face of corporate malevolence is similarly familiar, with those harmed and those responsible for causing harm enacting a predictable script. The seemingly simplistic approach to justice seeking, the guns and holsters of our youth, are replaced, however, by a complex and unwieldy U.S. legal system. In the corridors of the judicial system, the parties hand over their convictions and fate to a system in which the rules are anything but simple http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Contaminated Water and Leukemia in Woburn, Ma

Domagalski, Theresa A.
Organization & Environment , Volume 12 (3): 7 – Sep 1, 1999
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Domagalski / S /eptember REVIEW1999 ESSAY Review Essay The Failings of Civil Action THERESA A. DOMAGALSKI Florida Institute of Technology Jonathan Harr. A Civil Action. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Scott Rudin, Robert Redford, and Rachel Pfeffer, Producers. A Civil Action. 1998. 118 minutes. (Distributed by Touchstone Pictures). In youth, the rules involved in the pursuit of justice are often learned from child’s play in the form of games such as cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians, where protagonists and antagonists are readily discernible and the tools of justice include badges and guns, horses and arrows. In these children’s games, the righteous are expected to prevail while the guilty are to make retribution. The pursuit of justice by Joe and Jane Citizen in the face of corporate malevolence is similarly familiar, with those harmed and those responsible for causing harm enacting a predictable script. The seemingly simplistic approach to justice seeking, the guns and holsters of our youth, are replaced, however, by a complex and unwieldy U.S. legal system. In the corridors of the judicial system, the parties hand over their convictions and fate to a system in which the rules are anything but simple

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Published: Sep 1, 1999

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