True Crime

Key Themes and Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3819-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cummins, Ian

King, Martin

Wattis, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Section 1: Exploring True Crime

2. A Short History of True Crime

3. True Crime and Ethics

4. True Crime and Punishment

Section 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 A case study

12. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cummins, Ian
Ian Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Salford University. He qualified as a probation officer and subsequently worked as a mental health social worker. His research interests including the history of community care and mental health issues in the CJS. His most recent work has focused on poverty, inequality and advanced marginality.