Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and ‘Deviance’

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Rationale....Pages 3-3
The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as Cybercriminals....Pages 4-18
Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How Do UK Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?....Pages 19-33
Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse....Pages 34-47
The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn’s Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son....Pages 48-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Introduction and Rationale....Pages 65-65
Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad Discourse in Shutter Island ....Pages 66-80
‘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....Pages 81-96
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....Pages 97-111
Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction....Pages 112-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Introduction and Rationale....Pages 129-129
Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press....Pages 130-144
Popular Faces of Crime in Spain....Pages 145-161
Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film....Pages 162-176
Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction....Pages 177-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Introduction and Rationale....Pages 193-193
Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid’s The Mermaids Singing ....Pages 194-208
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 ....Pages 209-223
Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy....Pages 224-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-249