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Scheingold examines American street crime, the public’s obsession with it, and what this reaction has meant for politics and policy through a case study of the police and criminal courts in a medium-sized western community he calls “Cedar City”. During the period of study (1964 …
Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent. Yet we vicariously seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in t…
America's contradictory attitudes toward crime: repellent danger versus media glamorization.
