High-profile crimes : when legal cases become social causes / Lynn S. Chancer.

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...

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Main Author: Chancer, Lynn S., 1954-
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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