“… I must confess, Lone Ranger, that lately I have been having some uneasy feelings about you and about what you did to me. You were the creation of a commercialized image, an image that made us both believe that reality was something … other than what it really was.” Richard Quinney (1973). “There are a lot of People Grateful to the Lone Ranger …”The Insurgent Sociologist, 4:56–64.
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I would like to thank Tom Cox, Bill D'Antonio, Jim McGough, Rick Ridder, Leslie Pandiani and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper and the students in my spring 1977 Crime and Deviance course for their tube time. Finally, and especially, I thank Cathy Butterfield for her long hours and profound insight throughout the course of this project.
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Pandiani, J.A. Crime time TV: If all we knew is what we saw …. Contemporary Crises 2, 437–458 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02741547
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