Research Catalog

Title

Law and order : images, meanings, myths / Mariana Valverde.

Author

Valverde, Mariana, 1955-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

172 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical issues in crime and society

Uniform Title

Critical issues in crime and society.

Subject

• Crime and the press
• Crime in mass media
• Criminal investigation in mass media
• Mass media and crime
• Mass media and criminal justice
• Fear of crime
• Law enforcement
• Crime > Sociological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Social semiotics : the basics -- Representations and their social effects : a template -- Science and the semiotics of deviance -- The authority of the detective and the birth of the forensic gaze -- From the hard-boiled detective to the pre-crime unit : American representations of justice -- The invention of the psycho killer and the rise and fall of the welfare state -- Chronotopes of crime : perceptions of danger in urban space -- "Gruesome" pictures : images and their effects in criminal justice practice.

ISBN

• 0813538793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813538792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813538807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813538808 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005035876

OCLC

• 62533925
• SCSB-12646899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library