Law And Order - Images, Meanings, Myths

Informationen zum Autor Mariana Valverde is a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto and author of Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Mariana Valverde
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780813538808
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-3880-8
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet