Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths

by Mariana Valverde

Book Overview

In living rooms across the country, Americans have fallen in love with law-related television programming. From primetime legal dramas such as Law and Order, The Guardian, CSI, JAG, and Judging Amy to a host of daytime courtroom spectacles including Judge Judy, People's Court, and Divorce Courtviewers are endlessly entertained by the practices of the criminal justice system.

But with television courtrooms appearing more like the studio of The Jerry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813538807
• ISBN13: 9780813538808
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"