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High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

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Author(s): Lynn S. Chancer
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 288

Contents......Page 5
Preface: The Larger Symbolism of Symbolic Cases......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART 1: Presenting Provoking Assaults: From New York to Los Angeles......Page 18
1: When Cases Become Causes......Page 20
PART 2: Exemplifying a Genre: A Tale of Two Crimes......Page 44
2: The Rape of the Central Park Jogger......Page 46
3: The Murder of Yusef Hawkins......Page 78
PART 3: From Differing Advantage Points: "Smith," "Tyson," "King," "Denny
," and "Simpson"......Page 130
4: In re the Legal System......Page 132
5: More on the Press: Journalistic Divides......Page 190
6: Taking Sides: Diverse Public Reactions......Page 227
PART 4: Stepping Back
......Page 266
7: High-Profile Crimes and American Culture......Page 268
Appendix A: Dates and Descriptions of Provoking Assaults......Page 284
Appendix B: Identifying the Top Twenty High-Profile Crimes,1985–1996......Page 289
Appendix C: Acknowledging Intellectual Debts and Distinctions......Page 293
Notes......Page 298
Works Cited......Page 320
Index......Page 324