Birkbeck, Christopher.

Collective morality and crime in the Americas / Christopher Birkbeck. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013. - xii, 210 p. ; 25 cm. - Routledge studies in crime and society ; 3 . - Routledge studies in crime and society ; 3. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

020309977X (ebook) 0415529816 (hardback) 9780203099773 (ebook) 9780415529815 (hardback)

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Crime--Moral and ethical aspects--America.
Criminology--America.

HV6025 / .B5397 2013

174.936597 B619C