| Murder Contributor(s): D'Cruze, Shani (Author), Walklate, Sandra (Author), Pegg, Samantha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843921707 ISBN-13: 9781843921707 Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. Murder uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. The book incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces questions of race and genderparticularly cultural constructions of masculinity and femininityand examines the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context of particular crimes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2006491029 |
| Series: Crime and Society |
| Physical Information: 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces questions of race and gender, in particular cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and the social processes of 'forgetting and remembering' in the context of particular crimes on the other. Particular murders analysed included those of Myra Hindley, Harold Shipman and the Bulger murder. |