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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226101132 0226101134 9780226101125 0226101126 1282537490 9781282537491 9786612537493 6612537493 |