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High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-06 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes.(Book review)

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High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

Lynn S. Chancer University of Chicago Press www.press.uchicago.edu 288 pp., $38

Those involved with the law--lawyers, judges, court and law enforcement personnel, even jurors--tend to view a criminal defendant as one of two things: guilty or innocent. And their discussions about crimes tend to be two-sided. As sociologist Lynn Chancer explains in High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes, people on the sidelines of a crime, including the media and members of the public, also hold this dualistic view. However, these cases are more complex, and an either/or viewpoint discounts a wider variety of interpretations and responses.

Chancer, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Fordham University, has written two previous books on beauty, pornography, and feminism and the dynamics of power in sadomasochism. This...

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