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High-profile crimes [electronic resource] : when legal cases become social causes / Lynn S. Chancer.

By: Chancer, Lynn S, 1954-.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xv, 314 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780226101132 (electronic bk.); 0226101134 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Crime -- United States -- Sociological aspects | Crime -- United States -- Public opinion | Trials -- United States -- Public opinion | Crime and the press -- United States | Crime in mass media | Mass media and public opinion -- United States | Criminalité -- Aspect sociologique -- États-Unis | Criminalité -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique | Procès -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique | Criminalité et presse -- États-Unis | Criminalité dans les médias | Médias et opinion publique -- États-Unis | TRUE CRIME -- GeneralGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: High-profile crimes.DDC classification: 364.1 LOC classification: HV6789 | .C397 2005ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-306) and index.

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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