| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) |
| Contents |
Getting wise(guys) : the witness protection narrative -- The box in the box : putting interrogation in prime time -- The time of the crime : cold case squads and neoconservative social memory -- Risk management : Frank Abagnale Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure -- "Doing time" : keepers, brothers, and the prison exposé -- Epilogue : public secrets |
| Summary |
"Since the mid-1960s, the war on crime has reshaped public attitudes about state authority, criminal behavior, and the responsibilities of citizenship. But how have American writers grappled with these changes? What happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not through its legendary Godfathers but through a workaday, low-level figure who informs on his mob? Why is it that interrogation scenes have become so central to prime-time police dramas of late? What is behind writers' recent fascination with "cold case" homicides, with private security, or with prisons?" |
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"In Learning to Live with Crime, Christopher P. Wilson examines this war on crime and how it has made its way into cultural representation and public consciousness. Under the sway of neoconservative approaches to criminal justice and public safety, Americans have been urged to see crime as an inevitable risk of modern living and to accept ever more aggressive approaches to policing, private security, and punishment. The idea has been not simply to fight crime but to manage its risks; to inculcate personal vigilance in citizens; and to incorporate criminals' knowledge through informants and intelligence gathering. At its most scandalous, this study suggests, contemporary law enforcement has even come to mimic crime's own operations"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
Police questioning on television Witnesses Protection Crime investigation Citizen participation Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Prisons and prisoners Informers On television In literature |
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Neoconservatism and literature Neoconservatism and mass media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-194) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
True crime stories -- United States -- History and criticism
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Crime in literature.
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Criminal investigation in literature.
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Conservatism in literature.
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Crime on television.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Conservatism in literature
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Crime in literature
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Crime on television
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Criminal investigation in literature
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True crime stories
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010012826 |
| ISBN |
9780814270936 |
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081427093X |
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