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\"Anna Kellogg has always felt different. Growing up in Hartwood, New Jersey--where frequent disappearances are attributed to an urban-legend-like beast that dwells in the walled-in swamp at the center of town--can have that effect on people. But for Anna, it's more than that. Since she was a child, she's been plagued by episodes where she sees things others can't see. Feeling different is one thing, but actually being different is another. If it weren't for her best friend, Olivia, Anna's not sure where she'd fit in. But any hopes of having a normal senior year come to a halt when Olivia is attacked in the woods, bitten, and left for dead by a whirling cyclone of claws, fur, and teeth. Though Olivia survives, a sinister entity makes it clear that the mark had been set on Anna...and the miss has set in motion a catastrophic shift that will change Anna and her friends' lives forever.\"--Amazon.
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Race and Ethnic Representations of Lawbreakers and Victims in Crime News: A National Study of Television Coverage
Research on racial-ethnic portrayals in television crime news is limited and questions remain about the sources of representations and how these vary for perpetrators versus victims. We draw from power structure, market share, normal crimes, racial threat, and racial privileging perspectives to further this research. The reported race or ethnicity of violent crime perpetrators and victims are modeled as functions of: (1) situational characteristics of crime stories and (2) contextual characteristics of television market areas. The primary data are from a stratified random sample of television newscasts in 2002–2003 (Long et al. 2005). An important innovation of our work is the use of a national, more generalizeable, sample of local news stories than prior researchers who tended to focus on single market areas. Results indicate that both the context of the story itself and the social structural context within which news stories are reported are relevant to ethnic and racial portrayals in crime news. We find limited support for power structure, market share, normal crimes, and racial threat explanations of patterns of reporting. Racial privileging arguments receive more extensive support.
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The 24th hour
\"SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal strategy is complicated by gaps in the plaintiff's memory--and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing testimony. As Yuki leads the prosecution, Lindsay chases down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women's Murder Club short a bridesmaid ... or two\"-- Provided by publisher
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Pandemic Fiction Meets Political Science: A Simulation for Teaching Restorative Justice
We team teach an interdisciplinary political science and literature course titled “Violence and Reconciliation,” with case studies on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa and on debates about whether to develop a TRC in Northern Ireland. The course culminates in a two-week simulation in which students role play the experiences, strategies, and needs of victims, perpetrators, legal teams, government officials, and NGOs in the aftermath of a horrific event that has torn a society apart. We assessed the simulation through pre- and post-simulation writing exercises as well as observations of insights revealed by students during negotiations. We believe the simulation is an effective tool for helping students move from a scholarly engagement with the processes of restorative justice to employing them in response to hatred and violence. This article describes the simulation for use or adaptation in other courses.
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Can Grave Secrets Be Revealed via Analysis of Bare Bones? How Kathy Reichs's Fiction Novels Feed the Public Perception of Forensic Anthropology
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, Ph.D., earned her doctoral degree from Northwestern University and is an emeritus professor within the University of North Carolina Charlotte's (UNCC) Department of Anthropology (currently on indefinite leave). Since 1997, she has woven her own case experiences and state-of-the-art technical knowledge of the process of reading bones into 13 crime novels, all of which are New York Times \"bestsellers\" (Reichs 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Her protagonist, Temperance Brennan, Ph.D., analyzes decomposing, putrefied, mummified, and skeletonized remains to identify victims of violent crimes and to determine when and how death occurred. Reichs intertwines each of Brennan's adventures with threads of theory and practice from the subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology and seamlessly emboldens Brennan with comprehensive (but not wearisome) descriptions of the methods used. And in a quiet nod to cultural anthropology, Brennan's victim, witness, and informant interviews are often a key component in driving character development and moving the plot forward. Reichs's novels provide the public with a clear understanding of forensic anthropology. As a scholar-practitioner, Reichs's accounting of the thought process and technical steps implicit in skeletal analysis and case resolution is realistic as well as provocative. Although crime authors tend to pander to the reader by focusing on the seedier aspects of forensic cases, Reichs faithfully weaves the human condition into a rich tapestry of the living and dead through discovery, recovery, and analysis. Adapted from the source document.
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The Construction of Gender in Reality Crime TV
This article focuses on the social construction of femininity in a reality television program, America's Most Wanted. The program blurs fact and fiction in reenactments of actual crimes. The analysis focuses on its depiction of women crime victims. A prior study argues that the program empowers women to speak about their victimization. Other research suggests that such programs make women fearful. The authors compare episodes from the 1988-1989 and the 1995-1996 seasons. Although women spoke about their victimization, men spoke more often and presented master narratives about the crimes. In both seasons, the program imagery emphasized feminine vulnerability to violence from strange, devious, and brutal men and masculine technical expertise and authority as women's protection from such violence.
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Creating a True Crime Collection
Growing up in Washington State, I was fascinated by the case of the Green River Killer, who murdered as many as forty women in Seattle; by the history of Ted Bundy, who also preyed on women in the state; and by Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two college students in my home town. Another type of crime novel focuses on the psychological aspects of crime and its victims, and can be used effectively in psychology, sociology, and health courses to illustrate the causes and consequences of crime, as well as to show how social scientists use clues to analyze criminal behavior in order to catch wrong-doers, treat criminals, and prevent future crimes.
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Living to Read True Crime: Theorizations from Prison
Bearing tides such as Sins of the Mother and Cruel Sacrifice, true crime books usually take the form of a clearly-defined battle between noble law enforcement agents and an evil criminal protagonist, most often a male serial killer or an \"All-American housewife\" who kills her husband or children for purely selfish ends. Critics as Philip Jenkins, Edward J. Ingebretsen, Karen Haltunnen, Mary Jane DeMarr and Bryan Morgan Kopp have analyzed how true crime books divert attention from existing political and domestic arrangements by featuring aberrant criminals as the source of social ills, yet no existing study addresses how variously situated readers engage with true crime narratives.3 I argue, in this essay, that incarcerated women's practices of reading true crime books merit critical attention because they illuminate the crucial work that women perform with the scarce resources available for literary and intellectual life behind bars.
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