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

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Chancer, Lynn S, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226101132
0226101134
9780226101125
0226101126
1282537490
9781282537491
9786612537493
6612537493

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: High-profile crimes.DDC classification:

364.1 22

LOC classification:

HV6789 .C397 2005eb

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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 (pages 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.