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True Crime: Key Themes and Perspectives

Name: True Crime: Key Themes and Perspectives
ISBN: 9781529238211

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- Bristol University Press

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Language: English
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Category: True Crime

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.

Release date

Ebook: 21 October 2025