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True Crime: Key Themes and Perspectives

True Crime: Key Themes and Perspectives

Name: True Crime: Key Themes and Perspectives
Brand: Bristol University Press
SKU: 9781529238198
Price: 372.00 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Ian Cummins; Martin King; Louise Wattis
ISBN: 9781529238198

Edited by Ian Cummins · Martin King · Louise Wattis

Bristol University Press July 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781529238198
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication: July 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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.

Foreword

1.Introduction

2.True Crime – a history

3.Consuming True Crime

4.Using True Crime to explore theoretical perspectives

5.True Crime and Punishment

6.The Ethics of True Crime

7.True Crime / True Detectives

Case Studies section:

8.A True Crime case study: The murder of Meredith Kercher

9.Fear of Masks: Reading Gordon Burn

10.They Walk Among Us.