FRAMING THE CRIMINAL: CRIME, CULTURAL WORK AND THE LOSS OF CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, 1830-1900 (JOURNALISM, FICTION, MEMOIRS).

Résumé du livre

During the years 1830-1900 frames for crime and the criminal--cognitive devices with distinctive modes of selection, presentation and accentuation--reflected and contributed to the changing social order. Strictly speaking, these frames never became "depoliticized." However, as the traditional broadsheets and pamphlets and then the aggressive cultural work of the antebellum years gave way to the generic and professionalized work of the Gilded Age and later, crime-related cultural work lost its critical