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High-profile crimes : when legal cases become social causes /

O.J. Simpson. The Central Park jogger. Bensonhurst. William Kennedy Smith. Rodney King. These are more than crimes and criminals, more than court cases. They are cultural events that, for better or worse, gave concrete expression to latent social conflicts in American society. In High-Profile Crimes...

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Основен автор: Chancer, Lynn S., 1954-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315491
Подобни документи: Print version:: High-profile crimes.
Съдържание:
  • Larger symbolism of symbolic cases
  • When cases become causes
  • Rape of the Central Park jogger
  • Murder of Yusef Hawkins
  • In re the legal system
  • More on the press : journalistic divides
  • Taking sides : diverse public reactions
  • High-profile crimes and American culture.