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Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Anita Biressi

    1. Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe Buckinghamshire, UK

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Issues, Histories, Contexts

    1. Introduction

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 1-12

  3. Issues, Histories, Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. ‘True Stories Only!’

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 15-40

    3. Histories of True Crime

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 41-72

    4. Discourses of Law and Order in Britain from 1979 to 1995

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 73-108

  4. Stories, Bodies, Criminals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 111-125

    3. Period True Crime

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 126-145

    4. Daring to Know: Looking at the Body in the New True Crime Magazine

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 146-163

    5. Figure in a Landscape

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 164-194

    6. Concluding Comments

      • Anita Biressi
      Pages 195-196

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 197-238
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe Buckinghamshire, UK

    Anita Biressi

About the author

ANITA BIRESSI is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the Department of Arts and Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

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