Full Description
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 crime's ethical implications and its wider influence on crime and punishment.
Contents
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 Mailer's The Executioner's 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
12. Conclusion
