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"[Journalists'] recycled metaphors and modifiers such as jungle, predator, epidemic, infested, viral, and bred or breeding tell us that the places and people we are encountering are somehow bestial, pestilent, or otherwise uncivilized… conditions that ‘breed’ crime."
Changing the Conversation
Race, Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Connection in America
(Keith Lawrence, ed.), pp. 79–100, Aspen Institute,
2011
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