Constructing crime
Subtitle: discourse and cultural representations of crime and 'deviance'
By: edited by Christiana Gregoriou
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780230299771
Subjects: Crime in popular culture; Criminals in literature; Crime in literature
Other titles: Discourse and cultural representations of crime and 'deviance'
Description: "Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. Drawn from a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and literature, Music, Criminology, Law, Cultural, Criminal Justice and Gender Studies, the contributors in this cross-disciplinary collection explore how crime is constructed and culturally represented.  The essays investigate the ways criminal discourse needlessly construct myths, generate fear and panic, and even hinder our personal freedoms and rights.  They examine popular crime fiction and culture, and look at the ways identities are constructed in narratives of crime from across different ages and cultural contexts.  Finally, the book addresses how crime can bring to light taboos, stereotypes and schmata relating to gender and sexuality"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The devil drives a Lada: the social construction of hackers as cybercriminals / D.S. Wall; title: Scanning bodies, stripping rights? How do UK's media discourses portray airport security measures? / C. Gregoriou, P. Troullinou; title: Narrative and historical truth in delayed civil actions for child abuse / T. Ward; title: The edgier waters of the era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's husband, somebody's son / M. Colebrook; title: Cogito ergo sum: criminal logic and mad discourse in Shutter Island / M. E. Iwen; title: 'Armaggedon was yesterday - today we have a serious problem': pre- and postmillennial tropes for crime and criminality in fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson / R. Brown; title: 'It's a sin [...] 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 / D. Ireland; title: Criminal publication and Victorian prefaces: suspending disbelief in sensation fiction / M. Effron; title: Crime through a corpus: the linguistic construction of offenders in the British press / U. Tabbert; title: Popular faces of crime in Spain / A. Sinclair; title: Reinventing the badman in Jamaican fiction and film / L. Evans; title: Neurotecs: detectives, disability and cognitive exceptionality in contemporary fiction / S. Murray; title: Engendering violence: textual and sexual torture in Val McDermid's The mermaids singing / K. Watson; title: 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 / C. Beyer; title: Understanding Aileen Wuornos: pushing the limits of empathy / M. Koolen.