Essays about: "crime fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words crime fiction.

  1. 1. Captivating Communication : The Swedish Prison and Probation Service’s Storytelling and Creation of Legitimacy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kriminologiska institutionen

    Author : Ella Wendt Höjer; [2024]
    Keywords : prison; cultural criminology; Nordic exceptionalism; legitimacy; Kriminalvården;

    Abstract : The stories about prison are infinite, and ultimately affect our understanding of incarceration. Punishment and prison are also political, and the shape of the penal system is fundamentally different in different countries. READ MORE

  3. 2. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
    Keywords : noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

    Abstract : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. READ MORE

  4. 3. An Analysis of the Female Character in Patricia Cornwell’s Postmortem: A Pedagogical Use of Crime Fiction in Connection with the Teaching of Gender Norms

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Aylin Wallin; [2022]
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  5. 4. Do We Mistake Fiction for Fact? : Investigating Whether the Consumption of Fictional Crime-related Media May Help to Explain the Criminal Profiling Illusion

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

    Author : Teresa Greiwe; [2021]
    Keywords : criminal profiling; criminal profiling illusion; cultivation theory; cultivation effects; fictional crime-related media;

    Abstract : The disparity between the ongoing use, the overall positive attitudes towards criminal profiling and the lack of empirical evidence for its validity is also referred to as criminal profiling illusion. Associated risks for society range from misled police investigations, hindered apprehensions of the actual offender(s), and wrongful convictions of innocent citizens to mistrust in the police and their methods. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Get a Problem, Solve a Problem”: Vulnerability, Precarity and Vigilantism in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Mafaz Mahmoud; [2020]
    Keywords : Vulnerability; Precarity; Fiction; Genre fiction; Crime fiction; Thriller; Jack Reacher; Lee Child; Vigilantism;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes how vulnerability is represented in the Jack Reacher series, by drawing onwork by Bryan Turner and Judith Butler. The purpose of the research is to investigate the reasonReacher’s acts of vigilantism are needed. READ MORE