TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chancer,Lynn S.
TI  - High-profile crimes: when legal cases become social causes 
SN  - 9780226101132
AV  - HV6789 .C397 2005eb
U1  - 364.1 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Crime
KW  - United States
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Trials
KW  - Crime and the press
KW  - Crime in mass media
KW  - Mass media and public opinion
KW  - Criminalité
KW  - Aspect sociologique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - Procès
KW  - Criminalité et presse
KW  - Criminalité dans les médias
KW  - Médias et opinion publique
KW  - TRUE CRIME
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index; 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
N2  - 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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