Random violence : how we talk about new crimes and new victims / Joel Best.
1999
HV6789 .B47 1999 (Mapit)
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Random violence : how we talk about new crimes and new victims / Joel Best.
Author
Best, Joel.
ISBN
0520215729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520215710 (alk. paper)
0520215710 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Language
English
Description
xv, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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HV6789 .B47 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.973
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-235) and index.
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Random violence
From incidents to instances: the media discover wilding and freeway violence
Beyond instances: institutionalizing stalking and hate crimes
Gangs, conspiracies, and other cultural resources
The new victims
The victim industry
Declaring war on social problems
Connections among claims: the context for new social problems.
From incidents to instances: the media discover wilding and freeway violence
Beyond instances: institutionalizing stalking and hate crimes
Gangs, conspiracies, and other cultural resources
The new victims
The victim industry
Declaring war on social problems
Connections among claims: the context for new social problems.