Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Acronyms ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; 1: The Urban Vindicators; 2: They Deserve to Die; Culture and Crime; Inequality and Crime; Economy and Crime; Media and Crime; Argentinean Media Discourse; Latin America and Crime; Crime in Argentina; Zero Tolerance; 3: A Country Without Law; The Role of the Economy; The New Poor; The 'Patients of the State'; Attitudes Towards the Law; Corrupted Practices; Populism; Authoritarian Practices; The Role of the Press; 4: Argentinean Media; Credibility and Consumption

The Social Construction of Reality The Geography of the News; Contextual Analysis; Type of Discourses; The Reading Contract; Tabloidization; Reading Newspapers; Selection Criteria; 5: Final Disposition; Definition of 'Subversive'; Armed Forces and Print Media; The Last Dictatorship; The Role of Guerrilla Groups; Order and Disorder; Argentinean Society; Metaphors; Biological Metaphors; A Path to Democracy: The Falklands Factor; 6: Democratic Transition (1983-1995); Self-Criticism; Balza's Metaphors; Social Imaginary; The Military Accountability

The Guerrilla Self-Criticism7: Crime on the Agenda; Military Legacy; Dangerous Police; The Murder of José Luis Cabezas; 8: Beyond the Police Reform (1999-2003); The Ramallo Massacre; The Role of the Media; The Ramallo Reading Contract; Subjetivemas; Electoral Consequences; Disappearances in Democracy; The Double Disappearance of Julio López; Disappearances in Democracy in the Media; Contemporary Crime Policy; 9: Conclusion; The Role of the Economy; The Practice of Torture; The Argentinean Media; Final Comments; Bibliography; Index