Political Science 2192A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Female Genital Mutilation, Abortion Clinic, Organ Transplantation
28 Apr 2019
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The politics of law and order: laura quinn: most obvious way in which law and order engages contemporary politics is through. Ripped from the headlines: the scripts gravitate toward the big headline cases that are also the generators of political controversy. the show making clear that the generation of political con- troversy with episodes. In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate and equally important groups the police who investigate the crime and the district attorneys who prosecute it. Law and order: tasker: abstract: this article explores the migration of themes of homeland security and politi- cal violence from sensational action formats to procedural crime dramas. It argues that, although the latter have typically developed distinctive strategies and relatively com- plex narratives, there are commonalities across the broad category of crime television. Themes explored include racial profiling, motive and political violence, coercion, and the ethics of interrogation within crime television: based after 9/11.
