Random Violence How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims

Name: Random Violence How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
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ISBN: 9780520215726

ISBN-10: 0520215729

ISBN-13: 9780520215726

Edition: 1999

Authors: Joel Best

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Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about--and why we worry about--new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern. Best's original and incisive argument illuminates the fact that while these crimes are in actuality neither new, nor epidemic, nor random, the language used to describe them nonetheless shapes both private fears and public policies. Best scrutinizes the melodramatic quality…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has published more than twenty books on social problems and deviance, including Threatened Children , Random Violence , Damned Lies and Statistics , and The Student Loan Mess (with Eric Best.)



Acknowledgments


Preface



Random Violence



From Incidents to Instances: The Media Discover Wilding and Freeway Violence



Beyond Instances: Institutionalizing Stalking and Hate Crimes



Gangs, Conspiracies, and Other Cultural Resources



The New Victims



The Victim Industry



Declaring War on Social Problems



Connections among Claims: The Context for New Social Problems



New Ways to Study Media Coverage of Social Problems


Notes


References


Index