Public Narratives of Crime and Criminal Justice: Connecting ‘Small’ and ‘Big’ Stories to Make Public Narratives Visible

Feilzer, M.Y.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47236-8_4

Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment 2020

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47236-8_4

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Public Narratives of Crime and Criminal Justice: Connecting ‘Small’ and ‘Big’ Stories to Make Public Narratives Visible

M.Y. Feilzer

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Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime

Cole,

Bertenthal

2024

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The West Virginia University (WVU) Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system was built between 1971 and 1975 in Morgantown, West Virginia to be a prototype transportation system of the future. Envisioned as a hybrid of public and automotive transportation, the fully automated cars deliver passengers directly to their destinations without stopping at intervening stations. The PRT concept may be familiar to STS scholars through Latour’s study of Aramis, a PRT in Paris that was never completed. This article recounts a history with the opposite ending: the successful realization of a PRT in West Virginia. Our account supplements existing ones, which explain the construction of the WVUPRT primarily as the product of geography and politics. While not denying these factors, we carve out an explanatory role for another influence: a public narrative about the dangers of hitchhiking and crimes that might ensue from that practice. In weaving together that narrative with the history of the WVUPRT, we show how public narratives of crime authorize technological infrastructure.

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Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime

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Bertenthal

2024

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Public Narratives of Crime and Criminal Justice: Connecting ‘Small’ and ‘Big’ Stories to Make Public Narratives Visible

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Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime

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