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Random Violence - How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims (Paperback, New)
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Random Violence - How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims (Paperback, New)
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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 of the American
public's attitudes toward crime, exposing the cultural context for
the popularity of 'random violence' as a catch-all phrase to
describe contemporary crime, and the fallacious belief that
violence is steadily rising. He points out that the age, race, and
sex of homicide victims reveal that violence is highly patterned.
Best also details the contemporary ideology of victimization, as
well as the social arrangements that create and support a victim
industry that can label large numbers of victims. He demonstrates
why it has become commonplace to 'declare war' on social problems,
including drugs, crime, poverty, and cancer, and outlines the
complementary influence of media, activists, officials, and experts
in institutionalizing crime problems. Intrinsic to all these
concerns is the way in which policy choices and outcomes are
affected by the language used to describe social problems.
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