True Crime

Key Themes and Perspectives

AvIan Cummins,Martin King

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

True crime is a huge cultural industry: media organisations use crime stories to push sales and clicks. Yet behind this phenomenon lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between the representation of violent crime and its reality.This book is a go-to guide for students and researchers in understanding the development of this phenomenon and its social and cultural impacts. Through case studies including Lucy Letby, the Yorkshire Ripper and Fred and Rosemary West, the book considers true crime’s ethical implications and its wider influence on crime and punishment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:310 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529238198

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Ian Cummins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford.Martin King is an independent scholar and author.Louise Wattis is Assistant Professor at Northumbria University.

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'True crime has been largely ignored by criminologists to date but this concise but comprehensive study will change all of that. It examines every aspect of the genre relevant to the social sciences, including vicarious thrills, digital culture and femicide. A key text for everyone researching or studying critical, cultural or narrative criminology.' Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University

Innehållsförteckning

1. IntroductionPart 1: Exploring True Crime2. A Short History of True Crime 3. Ethics and True Crime4. True Crime and Punishment Part 2: Case Studies 5. Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song 6. British Serial Killers on Screen 7. Darkness Doubled: The Bundy Myth 8. Fear of Masks: The Crimes of Peter Sutcliffe 9. True Crime/True Detective 10. True Crime and News Representations of a Femicide in Bulgaria: Narratives of Conspiracy and State Corruption - Katerina Gachevska11. Lucy Letby: The Vanilla Killer12. Conclusion