There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation
"story" than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime
has been about the human condition, and whether information comes
from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a bottom about the
human capacity for cruelty and suffering, about desperation and
fear, about sex, race, and public morals. Facts are important to
the telling of a crime story, but ultimately less so than the often
apocryphal narratives we derive from them. The Culture of Crime is
hence about the most common and least studies staple of news. Its
prominence dates at least to the 1830s, when the urban penny press
employed violence, sex, and scandal to build dizzying high levels
of circulation and begin the modern age of mass media. In its
coverage of crime, in particular, the popular press represented a
new kind of journalism, if not a new definition of news, that made
available for public consumption whole areas of social and private
life that the mercantile, elite, and political press earlier
ignored. This legacy has continued unabated for 150 years. The book
explores new wrinkles in the study of crime and as a mass cultural
activity from exploring the private lives of public officials to
dangers posed by constraints to a free press. The volume is
prepared with the rigor of a scholarly brief but also the
excitement of actual crime stories as such. Throughout, the reader
is reminded that crime stories are both news and drama, and to
ignore either is to diminish the other. The work delves deeply into
current problems without either sentimental or trivial pursuits. It
will be a volume of great interest to people in communications
research, the social sciences, criminologists, and not least, the
broad public which must endure the punishment of crime and the
thrill of the crime story alike.
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