Media and Crime in Argentina: Punitive Discourse During the 1990s
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: The Urban Vindicators -- 2: They Deserve to Die -- Culture and Crime -- Inequality and Crime -- Economy and Crime -- Media and Crime -- Argentinean Media Discourse -- Latin America and Crime -- Crime in Argentina -- Zero Tolerance -- 3: A Country Without Law -- The Role of the Economy -- The New Poor -- The 'Patients of the State' -- Attitudes Towards the Law -- Corrupted Practices -- Populism -- Authoritarian Practices -- The Role of the Press -- 4: Argentinean Media -- Credibility and Consumption -- The Social Construction of Reality -- The Geography of the News -- Contextual Analysis -- Type of Discourses -- The Reading Contract -- Tabloidization -- Reading Newspapers -- Selection Criteria -- 5: Final Disposition -- Definition of 'Subversive' -- Armed Forces and Print Media -- The Last Dictatorship -- The Role of Guerrilla Groups -- Order and Disorder -- Argentinean Society -- Metaphors -- Biological Metaphors -- A Path to Democracy: The Falklands Factor -- 6: Democratic Transition (1983-1995) -- Self-Criticism -- Balza's Metaphors -- Social Imaginary -- The Military Accountability -- The Guerrilla Self-Criticism -- 7: Crime on the Agenda -- Military Legacy -- Dangerous Police -- The Murder of José Luis Cabezas -- 8: Beyond the Police Reform (1999-2003) -- The Ramallo Massacre -- The Role of the Media -- The Ramallo Reading Contract -- Subjetivemas -- Electoral Consequences -- Disappearances in Democracy -- The Double Disappearance of Julio López -- Disappearances in Democracy in the Media -- Contemporary Crime Policy -- 9: Conclusion -- The Role of the Economy -- The Practice of Torture -- The Argentinean Media -- Final Comments -- Bibliography -- Index