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<p>During the 1950s and 1960s <i>True Detective</i> magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. <i>The Rise of True Crime</i> examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative effects of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it.</p> <p>With skyrocketing crime rates and the appearance of a frightening trend toward social chaos in the 1970s, books, documentaries, and fiction films in the true crime genre tried to make sense of the Charles Manson crimes and the Gary Gilmore execution events. And in the 1980s and 1990s, true crime taught po

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Author

Jean Murley

Publisher

Praeger (ABC-CLIO, LLC)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573567725

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, True Crime, Sociology

Rating

4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14