Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English

Abstract

Part I began to unpack the ways in which true crime literatures and other mass media products help to produce certain knowledges and tell particular stories about crime, policing, disciplinarity and social control. The unravelling of historical and political discourses of crime and of true crime highlighted the ways in which concepts of lawlessness, of citizenship and individual responsibility have been articulated and perpetuated, underpinning the rhetorical division between the moral subject and its others.