Collective morality and crime in the Americas / Christopher Birkbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birkbeck, Christopher, author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Routledge studies in crime and society ; 3

Routledge studies in crime and society ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--America.

Criminology.

Crime--Moral and ethical aspects--America.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the ways in which the moral community is ""talked into being"" in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two groups in the ""history of the present."" It examines the calls to action which symbolically endow the moral community with power. And it looks at the character and content of collective moralizing.The source materials are commentaries about crime and criminal justice appearing in selected newspapers

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Collective moral discourse

Making crime "our" concern

"We the good"

The moral outlook

Moral agency

American melodramas

The artifacts of talk

Appendix

Preliminaries

The set of texts

Coding

Analysis

Reporting

List of items : organized by newspaper and date of publication

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-22913-2

0-203-09977-X

1-283-87181-5

1-136-22914-0

9780203099773

OCLC:

823388807