Mariana Valverde

Law and Order

Images, Meanings, Myths

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Produktbeschreibung

In Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths, Mariana Valverde draws on examples from film, television, and newspapers to examine these questions and to demonstrate how popular culture is creating an unrealistic view of crime and crime control. Valverde argues that understanding the impact of media representations of courtrooms, police departments, prisons, and the people who populate them is essential to comprehending the reality of criminal justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538808
• ISBN-10: 0813538807
• Artikelnr.: 22055160

Autorenporträt

Valverde, Mariana

Inhaltsangabe

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