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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Crime Literature"”.
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… of victimhood across the genres of crime fiction and true crime literature through case studies that illuminate the intersection of identity, representations of victimhood, and audiences’ understandings of victimhood. As Rebecca Wanzo argues in The Suffering Will Not Be Televised, …
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Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
The historiography of eighteenth-century crime, justice, and the law is one greatly divided between the study of the administration of the law as a social history of experience and the study of crime literature as a cultural history of representation. We have little sense of the relationship …
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Police officers' perceptions of gender-motivated violence in Canada
… against women have been overlooked in hate crime research. In an attempt to fill a gap in the hate crime, violence against women, and policing hate crime literature, I examine how nine police officers understand gender-motivated violence in Canada using vignettes, sentence-competition tasks, …
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
… recent decades have seen an expansion of state crime literature, the scholarship has been slow to integrate new criminological perspectives. The field is aware of state-perpetrated harms committed against queer and gender non-conforming individuals, yet there are limited works that explicitly …
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Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help
… community factors, and the likelihood of hate crime occurrence within a county area. I integrate considerations raised by Routine Activity and Social Control theorists as well as current hate crime literature to frame my concept of the hate manager, an agent of social control that utilizes hate …
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF IMMIGRANT REVITALIZATION: UNVEILING THE CRIME-REDUCING POWER OF IMMIGRANT SOCIAL CAPITAL
The consensus in the immigration-crime literature is that immigration either has a null or an inverse relationship with neighborhood crime (Ousey & Kubrin, 2018). These findings align with the “immigrant revitalization thesis,” which argues that immigration reduces neighborhood crime by producing …
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How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Processes of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
… there has been considerable research into urban crime, there is little criminological research and theoretical development on central business districts despite the fact these areas are critical in the functioning of cities. In fact, studies often exclude them because of the lack of residential …
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Women's perceptions of safety : CCTV in an inner city setting
… link between CCTV, women’s safety and fear of crime. The literature on fear of crime shows that women are more fearful than men even though they are less likely to be offended against. Many reasons are proposed in the literature including vulnerability, victimisation and past experience of …
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
… lower-class texts are rife with criminals and crimes yet their representations of criminality remain understudied. This penny literature often reproduces prevailing middle-class discourses about criminality, but these texts do so in ways that simultaneously disrupt those discourses. …
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Musicalizing murder: defining the 'true crime musical'
… form a subcategory that I call the “true crime musical.” Taking inspiration from the literary genre of the same name, these true crime musicals present one or more murder narratives and construct a violent world of the play. The true crime musical fictionalizes motive, subverts musical …