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Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims

Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims


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About the Book

An exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimess, stalking, and wilding, the author, Joel Best, shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern. Best's argument illuminates the fact that while these crimes are in actuality neither new, nor epidemic, nor random, the language used to describe them nonetheless shapes both private fears and public policies.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Random Violence Chapter 2 From Incidents to Instances: The Media Discover "Wilding" and Freeway Violence Chapter 3 Beyond Instances: Institutionalizing Stalking and Hate Crimes Chapter 4 Gangs, Conspiracies, and Other Cultural Resources Chapter 5 The New Victims Chapter 6 The Victim Industry Chapter 7 Declaring War on Social Problems Chapter 8 Connections among Claims: The Context for New Social Problems Appendix: New Uiays to Study Media Coverage of Social Problems Notes References Index

About the Author :
Joel Best is Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims (1990).

Review :
"This book looks at the patterns of crime and violence in U.S. society and how the language people use to describe it distorts how it is understood. Turning to roles of the news media and social activists in communicating threats to personal safety and public order, best argues that American culture tends to avoid the reality of crime and its underlying causes."--J"ournal of Social Work Education


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520215719
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 237
  • Sub Title: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520215710
  • Publisher Date: 02 Mar 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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