Constructing Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Constructing Criminal Facts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Rationale

      • Christiana Gregoriou

      Pages 3-3

   3. The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as Cybercriminals

      • David S. Wall

      Pages 4-18

   4. Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How Do UK Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?

      • Christiana Gregoriou, Pinelopi Troullinou

      Pages 19-33

   5. Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse

      • Tony Ward

      Pages 34-47

   6. The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn’s Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son

      • Martyn Colebrook

      Pages 48-61

3. Constructing Criminal Fictions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Introduction and Rationale

      • Christiana Gregoriou

      Pages 65-65

   3. Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad Discourse in Shutter Island

      • Michelle E. Iwen

      Pages 66-80

   4. ‘Armageddon Was Yesterday — Today We Have a Serious Problem’: Pre-and Postmillennial Tropes for Crime and Criminality in Fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson

      • Richard Brown

      Pages 81-96

   5. 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

      • David Ireland

      Pages 97-111

   6. Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction

      • Malcah Effron

      Pages 112-126

4. Constructing Social Identities and Wrongdoings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Introduction and Rationale

      • Christiana Gregoriou

      Pages 129-129

   3. Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press

      • Ulrike Tabbert

      Pages 130-144

   4. Popular Faces of Crime in Spain

      • Alison Sinclair

      Pages 145-161

   5. Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film

      • Lucy Evans

      Pages 162-176

   6. Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction

      • Stuart Murray

      Pages 177-189

5. Constructing Gendered Crime

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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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.

• child abuse
• cinema
• crime
• criminal justice
• criminology
• fiction
• film
• journalism
• language
• linguistics
• media
• Victorian era

• School of English, University of Leeds, UK

  Christiana Gregoriou

CHARLOTTE BEYER Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK RICHARD BROWN Reader in Modern Literature at the University of Leeds, UK MARTYN COLEBROOKPhD candidate MALCAH EFFRON Adjunct Faculty at the Community College of Baltimore County, USA LUCY EVANS Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, UK DAVID IRELAND Film music psychologist currently completing a PhD at the School of Music, University of Leeds, UK MICHELLE E. IWEN Manages the Creative Writing program at Arizona State University and teaches English at Mesa Community College, USA MANDY KOOLEN Lecturer in English and Women's Studies at Laurentian University, Canada STUART MURRAY Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, and Director of Medical Humanities Research, in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK ALISON SINCLAIR Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, UK ULRIKE TABBERT PhD student of English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UK PINELOPI TROULLINOU Research Assistant for the EU fp7 project ICT ethics, and PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, UK DAVID S. WALL Professor of Criminology at Durham University, UK TONY WARD Reader in Law at the University of Hull, UK KATE WATSON PhD graduate in English Literature from Cardiff University, UK

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