Constructing Crime

Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

By: Christiana Gregoriou (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Tables, Figures and Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Constructing Criminal Facts
Introduction and Rationale	p. 3
The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as Cybercriminals	p. 4
Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How Do UK Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?	p. 19
Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse	p. 34
The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son	p. 48
Constructing Criminal Fictions
Introduction and Rationale	p. 65
Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad Discourse in Shutter Island	p. 66
'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	p. 81
'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	p. 97
Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction	p. 112
Constructing Social Identities and Wrongdoings Introduction and Rationale	p. 129
Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press	p. 130
Popular Faces of Crime in Spain	p. 145
Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film	p. 162
Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction	p. 177
Constructing Gendered Crime
Introduction and Rationale	p. 193
Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid's The Mermaids Singing	p. 194
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	p. 209
Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy	p. 224
Index	p. 238
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Constructing Crime

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