Title Random violence : how we talk about new crimes and new victims / Joel Best.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
Contents	Ch. 1. Random Violence -- Ch. 2. From Incidents to Instances: The Media Discover Wilding and Freeway Violence -- Ch. 3. Beyond Instances: Institutionalizing Stalking and Hate Crimes -- Ch. 4. Gangs, Conspiracies, and Other Cultural Resources -- Ch. 5. The New Victims -- Ch. 6. The Victim Industry -- Ch. 7. Declaring War on Social Problems -- Ch. 8. Connections among Claims: The Context for New Social Problems -- App. New Ways to Study Media Coverage of Social Problems.
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Subject	Fear of crime -- United States.
	Fear of crime.
	United States.
	Crime -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Crime.
	Public opinion.
	Violence -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Violence.
	Victims of crimes -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Victims of crimes.
	Mass media and crime -- United States.
	Mass media and crime.
	Crime in mass media.
	Crime in mass media.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Best, Joel. Random violence. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999 0520215710 (DLC) 98006234 (OCoLC)38573033
ISBN	9780520921672 (electronic book)
	0520921674 (electronic book)
	0585299366 (electronic book)
	9780585299365 (electronic book)