Title: Crime, fear, and the law in true crime stories /
Authors: Biressi, Anita, 1965-
Publisher: Palgrave,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crime in popular culture Great Britain.; Crime in mass media Great Britain.; Crime in literature.; Crime writing Social aspects.; Fear of crime Great Britain.; Crime in mass media
Contents: Pt. I. Issues, Histories, Contexts -- 1. 'True Stories Only!' -- 2. Histories of True Crime -- 3. Discourses of Law and Order in Britain from 1979 to 1995 -- Pt. II. Stories, Bodies, Criminals -- 4. Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English Vernacular -- 5. Period True Crime: History from Below? -- 6. Daring to Know: Looking at the Body in the New True Crime Magazine -- 7. Figure in a Landscape: The Dangerous Individual in Criminal Biography -- 8. Concluding Comments.