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Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime book and magazines, law and order television, popular journalism - it traces how they harness and explore current concerns about law and order, crime and punishment and personal vulnerability.
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ANITA BIRESSI is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the Department of Arts and Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1349410497
- ISBN 13 9781349410491
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages250
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