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High-Profile Crimes

by Lynn S. Chancer

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First published: 2005 1 language ISBN: 9780226101125

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Chancer's discussions of the infamous Central Park jogger and Bensonhurst cases - as well as the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial - provide a multidimensional and innovative analysis of the most charged public dramas of the last two decades.

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Sociological aspects Public opinion Crime and the press Mass media and public opinion Trials Crime in mass media Crime Crime, sociological aspects Crime, united states Trials, united states

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