Media and crime in Argentina: punitive discourse during the 1990s

"This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals 'deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the ph...

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1. Verfasser: Fernandez Roich, Cynthia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London, United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:"This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals 'deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of 'vindicators' or how common citizens turned into 'evil' modern heroes in the press, and the parallelism between the military discourse under the military regime and the punitive discourse under democracy."--
Beschreibung:xv, 248 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781349952502