Constructing Crime [electronic resource] : Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance' /
Gregoriou, C.editor.
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures and Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Constructing Criminal Facts""; ""1.0 Introduction and Rationale""; ""1.1 The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as Cybercriminals""; ""1.2 Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How Do UK Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?""; ""1.3 Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse""; ""1.4 The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son""; ""2 Constructing Criminal Fictions""
""2.0 Introduction and Rationale""""2.1 Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad Discourse in Shutter Island""; ""2.2 'Armageddon Was Yesterday â€? Today We Have A Serious Problem': Pre- and Postmillennial Tropes for Crime and Criminality in Fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson""; ""2.3 'It's a sin [â€?] 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""; ""2.4 Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction ""
""3 Constructing Social Identities and Wrongdoings""""3.0 Introduction and Rationale""; ""3.1 Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press""; ""3.2 Popular Faces of Crime in Spain""; ""3.3 Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film""; ""3.4 Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction""; ""4 Constructing Gendered Crime""; ""4.0 Introduction and Rationale""; ""4.1 Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid's The Mermaids Singing""
""4.2 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""""4.3 Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Journalism.
Criminology.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Film genres.
Fiction.
Journalism.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Film History.
Media Studies.
Genre.
Fiction.