Professor Mary Graw Leary of Catholic Law recently presented her paper, Screaming Into the System: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Flannery O’Connor, Violence, and the Criminal Law, at Flannery Abroad: A Conference in Celebration of Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary. Her paper examines the synergistic relationship between Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, crime, violence, and the criminal law and what it can offer the modern criminal justice system – a system characterized by a search for truth and justice. Click here to read the paper. 

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