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Collective morality and crime in the Americas.

This study examines the ways in which the moral community is ""talked into being"" in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birkbeck, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in crime and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Collective moral discourse
  • Making crime "our" concern
  • "We the good"
  • The moral outlook
  • Moral agency
  • American melodramas
  • The artifacts of talk
  • Appendix
  • Preliminaries
  • The set of texts
  • Coding
  • Analysis
  • Reporting
  • List of items : organized by newspaper and date of publication
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.