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Constructing Crime: Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems
Constructing Crime Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems
Deconstructing the taken-for-granted messages of the media! This collection of fifteen essays addresses the following questions: Why are crime facts so difficult to determine but crime fear so easy to manipulate? Through what process do rumors, gossip, urban legends, and apocryphal stories become public "common sense"? Through what mechanisms do... more »
Deconstructing the taken-for-granted messages of the media! This collection of fifteen essays addresses the following questions: Why are crime facts so difficult to determine but crime fear so easy to manipulate? Through what process do rumors, gossip, urban legends, and apocryphal stories become public "common sense"? Through what mechanisms do... more »
ISBN-13: 9780881339840
ISBN-10: 0881339849
Publication Date: 2/1998
Pages: 357
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 0881339849
Publication Date: 2/1998
Pages: 357
Rating: 1
3 stars, based on 1 rating
Genres:
- Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Mass Media >> General
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Crime & Criminals >> Criminology
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
