Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Autor Mariana Valverdeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2006
In living rooms across the country, Americans have fallen in love with law-related television programming. From primetime legal dramas such as Law and Order, The Guardian, CSI, JAG, and Judging Amy to a host of daytime courtroom spectacles including Judge Judy, People's Court, and Divorce Courtviewers are endlessly entertained by the practices of the criminal justice system.
But with television courtrooms appearing more like the studio of The Jerry Springer Show than institutions of justice, and with weekly dramas seamlessly blending cutting-edge forensic science with exaggerated fictions, it calls to question: just what is it about these shows that has the public so captivated? And, what effects do the images of crime and order presented through the media have on society's view of the actual legal and criminal justice systems?
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.
Introducing a wealth of resources in social and cultural studies along with suggestions for classroom discussions and assignments, this book pushes the field of criminology in new and exciting theoretical directions. It is essential reading for students and scholars of criminal justice and law.
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.
Introducing a wealth of resources in social and cultural studies along with suggestions for classroom discussions and assignments, this book pushes the field of criminology in new and exciting theoretical directions. It is essential reading for students and scholars of criminal justice and law.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813538808
ISBN-10: 0813538807
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Issues in Crime and Society
ISBN-10: 0813538807
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Notă biografică
Mariana Valverde is a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto and author of Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge.
Cuprins
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
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
Descriere
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.