True crime is a huge cultural industry: media organisations use crime stories to push sales and clicks. Yet behind this phenomenon lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between the representation of violent crime and its reality.
This book is a go-to guide for students and researchers in understanding the development of this phenomenon and its social and cultural impacts. Through case studies including Lucy Letby, the Yorkshire Ripper and Fred and Rosemary West, the book considers true crimes ethical implications and its wider influence on crime and punishment.
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'True crime has been largely ignored by criminologists to date but this concise but comprehensive study will change all of that. It examines every aspect of the genre relevant to the social sciences, including vicarious thrills, digital culture and femicide. A key text for everyone researching or studying critical, cultural or narrative criminology.' Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University
1. Introduction
Part 1: Exploring True Crime
2. A Short History of True Crime
3. Ethics and True Crime
4. True Crime and Punishment
Part 2: Case Studies
5. Norman Mailers The Executioners Song
6. British Serial Killers on Screen
7. Darkness Doubled: The Bundy Myth
8. Fear of Masks: The Crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
9. True Crime/True Detective
10. True Crime and News Representations of a Femicide in Bulgaria: Narratives
of Conspiracy and State Corruption - Katerina Gachevska
11. Lucy Letby - The Vanilla Killer: A Case Study
12. Conclusion
Ian Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Salford University. He qualified as a probation officer and subsequently worked as a mental health social worker. His research interests including the history of community care and mental health issues in the CJS. His most recent work has focused on poverty, inequality and advanced marginality. Ian Cummins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Society at Salford University.
