Imagining crime: textual outlaws and criminal conversations /

248 Pages·12.195 MB·English

by  Alison Young.

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IMAGINING CRIME
Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations
Alison Young
SAGE Publications
London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi
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Cover illustration: Detail from Home Office Poster,
photograph by Peter Rush
© Alison Young 1996
First published 1996
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is
available from the British Library
ISBN 0 8039 8622 X
ISBN 0 8039 8623 8 (pbk)
Library of Congress catalog card number 95-072175
Typeset by M Rules
Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Books.
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations 1
2 Criminology and the Question of Feminism 27
3 The Universal Victim and the Body in Crisis 51
4 The Scene of the Crime: Reading the Justice of Detective Fiction 79
5 The Bulger Case and the Trauma of the Visible 111
6 Criminological Concordats: On the Single Mother and the
Criminal Child 146
7 Fatal Frames: HIV/AIDS as Spectacle in Criminal Justice 175
Afterthoughts: The Imagination of Crime 207
References 214
Index 227
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