Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories
Author:   Anita Biressi
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780333745472


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   26 June 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories


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Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts true crime book and magazines, law and order television, popular journalism it traces how they harness and explore current concerns about law and order, crime and punishment and personal vulnerability.

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Author:   Anita Biressi
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780333745472


ISBN 10:   0333745477
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   26 June 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRUE CRIME: ISSUES, HISTORIES, CONTEXTS Introduction 'True Stories Only' Histories of True Crime Discourses of Law and Order in Modern Britain PART TWO: TRUE CRIME: STORIES, BODIES, CRIMINALS Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English Vernacular Period True Crime: History from Below? Daring to Know: Looking at the Body in the New True Crime Magazine Figure in a Landscape: The Dangerous Individual in Criminal Biography Bibliography Index

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ANITA BIRESSI is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the Department of Arts and Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

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