Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. by Jennifer Petersen

Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

Jennifer Petersen

210 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction crime sociology
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In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard--a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming--and James Byrd Jr.--an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas--provoked a passionate public outrage. The intense media coverage of the murd...

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