Constructing crime
Discourse and cultural representations of crime and 'deviance'
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20033556 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Christiana Gregoriou (0000-0003-2875-0180, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Constructing Crime (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230392083 |
| OpenAlex | W432586757 |
| ISBN | 9780230392083 |
| Open Library | OL37188964M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Editor Preface Notes on Contributors PART I: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FACTS The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as the Cybercriminal D.S.Wall Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How do UK's Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures? C.Gregoriou & P.Troullinou Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse T.Ward The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son M.Colebrook PART II: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FICTIONS Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad-Discourse in Shutter Island M.E.Iwen 'ARMAGGEDON WAS YESTERDAY- TODAY WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM': Pre- and post- millennial Tropes for Crime and Criminality in Fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson R.Brown '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 D.Ireland Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction M.Effron PART III: CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND WRONGDOINGS Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press U.Tabbert Popular Faces of Crime in Spain A.Sinclair Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film L.Evans Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction S.Murray PART IV: CONSTRUCTING GENDERED CRIME Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid's The Mermaids Singing K.Watson Life of Crime: Feminist Crime/Life Writing in Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence , P.D. James, Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography , and Val McDermid, A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Women Private Eyes C.Beyer Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy M.Koolen Notes Index
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Literature · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |