LEADER 05104nam 22007334a 450 001 9910780995703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53749-0 010 $a9786612537493 010 $a0-226-10113-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226101132 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006451 035 $a(EBL)496615 035 $a(OCoLC)593356165 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000338596 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12135713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338596 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10295440 035 $a(PQKB)11564390 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119095 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496615 035 $a(DE-B1597)523673 035 $a(OCoLC)1048634419 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226101132 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10372075 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253749 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006451 100 $a20050330d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHigh-profile crimes$b[electronic resource] $ewhen legal cases become social causes /$fLynn S. Chancer 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-10112-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-306) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface: The Larger Symbolism of Symbolic Cases -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart One. Presenting Provoking Assaults. From New York to Los Angeles -- $tPart Two. Exemplifying a Genre. A Tale of Two Crimes -- $tPart Three. From Differing Vantage Points. "Smith," "Tyson," "King," "Denny," and "Simpson" -- $tPart Four. Stepping Back -- $tAppendix A: Dates and Descriptions of Provoking Assaults -- $tAppendix B: Identifying the Top Twenty High-Profile Crimes, 1985-1996 -- $tAppendix C: Acknowledging Intellectual Debts and Distinctions -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aO. J. Simpson. The Central Park jogger. Bensonhurst. William Kennedy Smith. Rodney King. These are more than crimes and criminals, more than court cases. They are cultural events that, for better or worse, gave concrete expression to latent social conflicts in American society. In High-Profile Crimes, Lynn Chancer explores how these cases became conflated with larger social causes on a collective level and how this phenomenon has affected the law, the media, and social movements. An astute and incisive chronicle of some of the most polarizing cases of the 1980s and 1990s, High-Profile Crimes shows that their landmark status results from the overlapping interaction of diverse participants. The merging of legal cases and social causes, Chancer argues, has wrought ambivalent effects on both social movements and the law. On the one hand, high-profile crimes offer important opportunities for emotional expression and raise awareness of social issues. But on the other hand, social problems cannot be resolved through the either/or determinations that are the goals of the legal system, creating frustration for those who look to the outcome of these cases for social progress. Guilt or innocence through the lens of the media leads to either defeat or victory for a social cause-a confounding situation that made the O. J. Simpson case, for example, unable to resolve the issues of domestic violence and police racism that it had come to symbolize. Based on nearly two hundred interviews, Chancer's discussions of the infamous Central Park jogger and Bensonhurst cases-as well as the rape trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson, the assault cases of Rodney King and Reginald Denny, and, finally, the O. J. Simpson murder trial-provide a convincing, multidimensional and innovative analysis of the most charged public dramas of the last two decades. 606 $aCrime$zUnited States$xSociological aspects 606 $aCrime$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aTrials$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aCrime and the press$zUnited States 606 $aCrime in mass media 606 $aMass media and public opinion$zUnited States 610 $acriminal, crime, legal, law, litigation, justice, enforcement, police, sociology, anthropology, case, courtroom, judge, activism, oj simpson, central park, bensonhurst, william kennedy smith, rodney king, well known, famous, culture, cultural, america, american, controversial, news, 1980s, 1990s, high profile, racism, domestic violence, interviews, rape, trial, jury, journalistic. 615 0$aCrime$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aCrime$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aTrials$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aCrime and the press 615 0$aCrime in mass media. 615 0$aMass media and public opinion 676 $a364.1 700 $aChancer$b Lynn S.$f1954-$01138202 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780995703321 996 $aHigh-profile crimes$93737754 997 $aUNINA