Prime Time Crime: Television Portrayals of Law Enforcement.
The large number of successful television series involving criminals, police, and the legal system of the 1980's-91, including the "video verité" genre of crime reenactments, offer their viewers ideological myths about crime and authority that both critique the legal system and promote force as a pr...
| Published in: | Journal of American Culture (01911813) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 57 - 69 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring92
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |