About this nonfiction
The Culture of Crime by Craig L. LaMay & Everette E. Dennis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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 expl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Craig L. LaMay & Everette E. Dennis
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351304993
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Science, Social Science