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Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
Joel Best
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Description for Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
Paperback. 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, and wilding, it shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern. Num Pages: 237 pages, 5 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 63.
"Random Violence" is a deft and thought-provoking 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 crimes, stalking, and wilding, 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 original and incisive 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 ... Read more
"Random Violence" is a deft and thought-provoking 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 crimes, stalking, and wilding, 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 original and incisive 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520215726
SKU
V9780520215726
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Ref
99-1
About Joel Best
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).
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