Fleetwood, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-6348-4810 (2024) What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime. Notting Hill Editions, Broadhembury, Honiton UK. ISBN 978-1912559534

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Abstract

Over the past few decades, there has been a remarkable rise in the number of people who speak publicly about their experience of crime. These personal accounts used to be confined to the police station and the courtroom, but today bookshops heave with autobiographies by prisoners, criminals, police and barristers while streaming platforms host hours of interviews with serial killers, death-row residents, vigilantes and gang members. In What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime, criminologist Jennifer Fleetwood examines seven infamous crime stories to make sense of this modern confessional impulse, including Howard Marks’s outlandish autobiography Mr Nice, Shamima Begum’s controversial Times interview, Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight appearance and Myra Hindley’s unpublished prison letters.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	narrative criminology, media, crime, documentary, memoir, autobiography, podcasts, confessions
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Last Modified:	16 Oct 2024 10:52
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48304

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