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Constructing crime

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"Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. Drawn from a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and literature, Music, Criminology, Law, Cultural, Criminal Justice and Gender Studies, the contributors in this cross-disciplinary collection explore how crime is constructed and culturally represented. The essays investigate the ways criminal discourse needlessly construct myths, generate fear and panic, and even hinder our personal freedoms and rights. They examine popular crime fiction and culture, and look at the ways identities are constructed in narratives of crime from across different ages and cultural contexts. Finally, the book addresses how crime can bring to light taboos, stereotypes and schmata relating to gender and sexuality"--Publisher's website.

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Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
Language
English
Pages
249

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Crime in popular culture, Criminals in literature, Crime in literature
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Table of Contents

The devil drives a Lada: the social construction of hackers as cybercriminals / D.S. Wall
Scanning bodies, stripping rights? How do UK's media discourses portray airport security measures? / C. Gregoriou, P. Troullinou
Narrative and historical truth in delayed civil actions for child abuse / T. Ward
The edgier waters of the era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's husband, somebody's son / M. Colebrook
Cogito ergo sum: criminal logic and mad discourse in Shutter Island / M. E. Iwen
'Armaggedon was yesterday - today we have a serious problem': pre- and postmillennial tropes for crime and criminality in fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson / R. Brown
'It's a sin [...] using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone, Beethoven just wrote music': The role of the incongruent soundtrack in the representation of the cinematic criminal / D. Ireland
Criminal publication and Victorian prefaces: suspending disbelief in sensation fiction / M. Effron
Crime through a corpus: the linguistic construction of offenders in the British press / U. Tabbert
Popular faces of crime in Spain / A. Sinclair
Reinventing the badman in Jamaican fiction and film / L. Evans
Neurotecs: detectives, disability and cognitive exceptionality in contemporary fiction / S. Murray
Engendering violence: textual and sexual torture in Val McDermid's The mermaids singing / K. Watson
Life of crime: feminist crime/life writing in Sara Paretsky, Writing in an age of silence, P.D. James, Time to be in earnest: a fragment of autobiography, and Val McDermid, A suitable job for a woman: inside the world of women private eyes / C. Beyer
Understanding Aileen Wuornos: pushing the limits of empathy / M. Koolen.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Basingstoke
Other Titles
Discourse and cultural representations of crime and 'deviance'

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Dewey Decimal Class
364
Library of Congress
HV6030 .C67 2012, PN4699-5650HV6001-72, PN56.C7 C66 2012

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xii, 249 p. :
Number of pages
249

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OL25395695M
ISBN 10
0230299776
ISBN 13
9780230299771
LCCN
2012406250
OCLC/WorldCat
766301146

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