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| ISBN: | 9780226101132
0226101134
9780226101125
0226101126
0226101126
1282537490
9781282537491
9786612537493
6612537493
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| 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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| Other form: | Print version: Chancer, Lynn S., 1954- High-profile crimes. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005 9780226101125
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