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-Sasson has adopted a constructionist perspective as a point of departure to explore different -interpretative frames- for making sense of crime. These frames are: faulty system; social breakdown; blocked opportunities; media violence; and racist system. Some 20 crime-watch groups in the Boston area were contacted, and the author then interviewed them and monitored their discussions (which are extensively quoted) about crime... [T]his book provides a timely exploration of an important topic. Appendixes; references. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students.- --D. O. Friedrichs, Choice -In this modest but delightful study Theodore Sasson makes a significant contribution to our understanding of everyday discourse on crime and punishment.... Sasson is an unpretentiously shrewd and sensitive interpreter of his participants' talk, and this is the best empirical account we yet have of everyday argumentation about crime and justice.- --Richard Sparks, Contemporary Sociology -Crime Talk remains an insightful exploration of the frames this culture uses to discuss crime. The book provokes further interest in the fertile field of discourse analysis.- --Amy Binder, American Journal of Sociology

Sasson has adopted a constructionist perspective as a point of departure to explore different interpretative frames for making sense of crime. These frames are: faulty system; social breakdown; blocked opportunities; media violence; and racist system. Some 20 crime-watch groups in the Boston area were contacted, and the author then interviewed them and monitored their discussions (which are extensively quoted) about crime... [T]his book provides a timely exploration of an important topic. Appendixes; references. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students. </p> <em>--</em>D. O. Friedrichs, <em>Choice</em></p> </p> In this modest but delightful study Theodore Sasson makes a significant contribution to our understanding of everyday discourse on crime and punishment.... Sasson is an unpretentiously shrewd and sensitive interpreter of his participants' talk, and this is the best empirical account we yet have of everyday argumentation about crime and justice. </p> --Richard Sparks, <em>Contemporary Sociology</em></p> <em>Crime Talk</em> remains an insightful exploration of the frames this culture uses to discuss crime. The book provokes further interest in the fertile field of discourse analysis. </p> --Amy Binder, <em>American Journal of Sociology</em></p>

<p> Sasson has adopted a constructionist perspective as a point of departure to explore different interpretative frames for making sense of crime. These frames are: faulty system; social breakdown; blocked opportunities; media violence; and racist system. Some 20 crime-watch groups in the Boston area were contacted, and the author then interviewed them and monitored their discussions (which are extensively quoted) about crime... [T]his book provides a timely exploration of an important topic. Appendixes; references. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students. <p> --D. O. Friedrichs, Choice

Sasson has adopted a constructionist perspective as a point of departure to explore different interpretative frames for making sense of crime. These frames are: faulty system; social breakdown; blocked opportunities; media violence; and racist system. Some 20 crime-watch groups in the Boston area were contacted, and the author then interviewed them and monitored their discussions (which are extensively quoted) about crime... [T]his book provides a timely exploration of an important topic. Appendixes; references. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students. --D. O. Friedrichs, Choice In this modest but delightful study Theodore Sasson makes a significant contribution to our understanding of everyday discourse on crime and punishment.... Sasson is an unpretentiously shrewd and sensitive interpreter of his participants' talk, and this is the best empirical account we yet have of everyday argumentation about crime and justice. --Richard Sparks, Contemporary Sociology Crime Talk remains an insightful exploration of the frames this culture uses to discuss crime. The book provokes further interest in the fertile field of discourse analysis. --Amy Binder, American Journal of Sociology

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Theodore Sasson is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Middlebury College. His research interests are in political science and criminology.

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