True Crime

Key Themes and Perspectives

Ian Cummins, Martin King, Louise Wattis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529238198 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1. Introduction

Part 1: Exploring True Crime

2. A Short History of True Crime

3. Ethics and True Crime

4. 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 Gachevska

11. Lucy Letby: The Vanilla Killer

12. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781529238198 / 9781529238198
Zustand	Neuware