CiNii 図書 - The culture of crime

There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation "story" than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime has been about the human condition, and whether information comes from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a bottom about the human capacity for cruelty and suffering, about desperation and fear, about sex, race, and public morals. Facts are important to the telling of a crime story, but ultimately less so than the often apocryphal narratives we derive from them. The Culture of Crime is hence about the most common and least studies staple of news. Its prominence dates at least to the 1830s, when the urban penny press employed violence, sex, and scandal to build dizzying high levels of circulation and begin the modern age of mass media. In its coverage of crime, in particular, the popular press represented a new kind of journalism, if not a new definition of news, that made available for public consumption whole areas of social and private life that the mercantile, elite, and political press earlier ignored. This legacy has continued unabated for 150 years. The book explores new wrinkles in the study of crime and as a mass cultural activity-from exploring the private lives of public officials to dangers posed by constraints to a free press. The volume is prepared with the rigor of a scholarly brief but also the excitement of actual crime stories as such. Throughout, the reader is reminded that crime stories are both news and drama, and to ignore either is to diminish the other. The work delves deeply into current problems without either sentimental or trivial pursuits. It will be a volume of great interest to people in communications research, the social sciences, criminologists, and not least, the broad public which must endure the punishment of crime and the thrill of the crime story alike.

Introduction
I: Overview
1: The Wicked World: The National Police Gazette and Gilded-Age America
2: Cosmology of Fear
3: The Reporter I: Cops, Killers and Crispy Critters
II: Views on Crime and Media
4: The Victim: Twice Wounded
5: The Criminal: Where the Sun Don't Shine
6: The Cop: Waiting for Good Dope
7: The Lawyer: "A Chill Wind Blows"
8: The Judge: Justice in Prime Time
9: The Court Officer: Meet the Press
10: The Reporter II: Better Than Real Life
III: The Culture of Crime
11: Nervous in the Naked City
12: Kids and Crime
13: The Female Fear
14: Firearms Follies: How the News Media Cover Gun Control
15: Desperadoes and Lawmen: The Folk Hero
16: Making a Killing: An Interview with Elmore Leonard
17: You Want Me to Read a What?
18: Raskolnikov's Regret: Covering Crime in Russia
IV: Review Essay
19: Glimpses of Gotham

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