Carrie A Rentschler

Second Wounds

Victims' Rights and the Media in the U.S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes how the U.S. victims rights movement has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to the direct victims of violent crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349303
• ISBN-10: 0822349302
• Artikelnr.: 32470125

Autorenporträt

Carrie A. Rentschler

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Victims' Rights Movement and the Second Wound 1
Part One. The Life and Times of Victims' Rights
1. Law and Order: The Dominant Ideology of Victims' Rights 33
2. An Activist History of Victims' Rights 55
Part Two. Opening and Closing the Second Wound: Representing Victims
3. Meet the Press: Representing Victims' Rights 83
4. Undisclosed Sources: Victims' Rights and Journalism Training 113
5. Profiles of Life: News Memorials to the Dead 137
6. Faces of Murder 177
Conclusion. Giving Face to the Family as Victim 211
Notes 223
Bibliography 233
Index 257