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...
| Основен автор: | Chancer, Lynn S., 1954- |
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| 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. |
| Резюме: |
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, Lynn Chancer explores how these cases became conflated with larger social causes on a collective level and how this phenomenon has affected the law, the media, and social movements. An astute and incisive chronicle of some of the most polarizing cases of the 1980s and 1990s, High-Profile Crimes sh. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226101132 0226101134 |