Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Editor Preface Notes on Contributors PART I: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FACTS The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as the Cybercriminal; D.S.Wall Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How do UK's Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?; C.Gregoriou & P.Troullinou Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse; T.Ward The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son ; M.Colebrook PART II: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FICTIONS Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad-Discourse in Shutter Island ; M.E.Iwen 'ARMAGGEDON WAS YESTERDAY- TODAY WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM': Pre- and post- millennial Tropes for Crime and Criminality in Fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson; R.Brown 'It's a sin [...] Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone, Beethoven just wrote music': The Role of the Incongruent Soundtrack in the Representation of the Cinematic Criminal; D.Ireland Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction; M.Effron PART III: CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND WRONGDOINGS Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press; U.Tabbert Popular Faces of Crime in Spain; A.Sinclair Reinventing the Badman in Jamaican Fiction and Film; L.Evans Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction; S.Murray PART IV: CONSTRUCTING GENDERED CRIME Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid's The Mermaids Singing ; K.Watson Life of Crime: Feminist Crime/Life Writing in Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence , P.D. James, Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography , and Val McDermid, A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Women Private Eyes ; C.Beyer Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy; M.Koolen Notes Index