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Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics Of Youth In Crisis by Charles R Acland (Paperback, 1994)

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In this book, Charles Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique of statistical evidence of youth violence, Acland compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceived crisis of American youth. After examining the dominant paradigms for scholarly research into youth deviance, Acland explores the ideas circulating in the popular media about a sensational crime known as the preppy murder and the confession to that crime. Arguing that the meaning of crime is never inherent in the event itself, he evaluates other sites of representation, including newspaper photographs (with a comparison to the Central Park wilding''), daytime television talk shows ( Oprah, Geraldo, and Donahue ), and Hollywood youth films (in particular River's Edge ).Through a cultural studies analysis of historical context, Acland blurs the centre of our preconceptions and exposes the complex social forces at work upon this issue in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Acland asks of the empiricist social critic, How do we know that we are measuring what we say we are measuring, and how do we know what the numbers are saying? Arguments must be made to interpret findings, which suggests that conclusions are provisional and to various degrees are sites of contestation. He launches into this gratifying book to show that beyond the problematic category of actual crime, the United States has seen the construction of a new spectacle of wasted youth that will have specific consequences for the daily lives of the next generation.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN-13
9780813322872
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95176834

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Subject Area
Human Biology
Author
Charles R Acland
Publication Name
Youth, Murder, Spectacle: the Cultural Politics of Youth in Crisis
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Criminology
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
191 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
454g

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Charles R Acland
Genre
Children & Young Adults
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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