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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1. Verfasser: Chancer, Lynn S., 1954-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index.
ISBN:9780226101132
0226101134
9780226101125
0226101126
1282537490
9781282537491
9786612537493
6612537493

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