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Covert violence occurs in all social institutions—including
families and close relationships, education, workplaces, politics,
mass media, and healthcare—each with its own unique power
dynamics that shape the incidence and patterns of these vicious
acts. This book focuses on the types of surreptitious murder and
mayhem that perpetrators intend to go unnoticed by would-be
victims—until it’s too late. When such attacks are carried out
with efficiency and competence, they may be disguised in official
records as the result of illness, accident, or intentional
self-harm, only on occasion to be later reclassified as the brutal
crimes they are. This compelling and much-needed book is for all
those who seek to understand—and strive to prevent—violence in
society.
Covert violence occurs in all social institutions—including
families and close relationships, education, workplaces, politics,
mass media, and healthcare—each with its own unique power
dynamics that shape the incidence and patterns of these vicious
acts. This book focuses on the types of surreptitious murder and
mayhem that perpetrators intend to go unnoticed by would-be
victims—until it’s too late. When such attacks are carried out
with efficiency and competence, they may be disguised in official
records as the result of illness, accident, or intentional
self-harm, only on occasion to be later reclassified as the brutal
crimes they are. This compelling and much-needed book is for all
those who seek to understand—and strive to prevent—violence in
society.
Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media
coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of
studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the
most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive
exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America
explains connections between American culture and the incidence of
serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial
murderers are white, male Americans. It describes the omnipresence
of serial murder in American media and investigates what it would
take to decrease its occurrence. Presenting empirically supported
arguments that have the potential to revolutionize how serial
murder is understood, studied, and investigated, this volume:
Places the serial murder phenomenon in a cultural context,
promoting qualitative understanding and the potential for reducing
its frequency Includes an illustrated model that explains how
people utilize cultural values to construct lines of action
according to their cultural competencies Demonstrates how the
American cultural milieu fosters serial murder and the creation of
white male serial murderers Provides a critique of the American
mass media's role in the development and notoriety of serial murder
Describes the framework on which the majority of definitions of
serial murder are based Drawn from years of dedicated research of
Dr. Julie B. Wiest, this volume presents a new approach to the
study of U.S. serial murder, offers important implications for law
enforcement and mass media, and forms a basis for future research
on serial murder, murder, and violence in the U.S. and in other
nations.
Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media
coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of
studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the
most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive
exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America
explains connections between American culture and the incidence of
serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial
murderers are white, male Americans. It describes the omnipresence
of serial murder in American media and investigates what it would
take to decrease its occurrence. Presenting empirically supported
arguments that have the potential to revolutionize how serial
murder is understood, studied, and investigated, this volume:
Places the serial murder phenomenon in a cultural context,
promoting qualitative understanding and the potential for reducing
its frequency Includes an illustrated model that explains how
people utilize cultural values to construct lines of action
according to their cultural competencies Demonstrates how the
American cultural milieu fosters serial murder and the creation of
white male serial murderers Provides a critique of the American
mass media's role in the development and notoriety of serial murder
Describes the framework on which the majority of definitions of
serial murder are based Drawn from years of dedicated research of
Dr. Julie B. Wiest, this volume presents a new approach to the
study of U.S. serial murder, offers important implications for law
enforcement and mass media, and forms a basis for future research
on serial murder, murder, and violence in the U.S. and in other
nations.
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media
Sociology section of the American Sociological Association
(CITAMS), this volume of Studies in Media and Communications
features social science research that examines the practices,
patterns, and messages related to representations of crime in mass
media around the world. Chapters focus on a wide range of
fact-based and fictional accounts of criminality as depicted in
print and broadcast news, documentary and video-on-demand films,
and television programs. Stories about crime and criminality have
long been the mainstay of news and entertainment media content, and
the intersection of crime and media is a common topic in scholarly
research. Moreover, substantial evidence indicates that these media
depictions are highly influential as people in economically
advanced societies - who tend to have little personal experience
with crime-form perceptions about criminality, crime rates,
characteristics of criminals, and even their own likelihood of
victimization. Thus, ongoing examination of crime images within
various types of mass media aids in understanding the associated
messages and meanings that are disseminated to consumers. This
volume will enhance the knowledge of junior and senior scholars in
criminology, sociology, journalism, and communication/media
studies, particularly because of its inclusion of crime stories in
a variety of formats and that represent media content from nations
spanning five continents.
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media
Sociology section of the American Sociological Association
(CITAMS),this volume in Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass
media in the digital age. Chapters offer empirically supported
studies that expand on knowledge about new possibilities for crime
and policing, representations of criminality via digital media, and
methodological considerations for contemporary studies of crime and
media. Criminality, policing, and mass media are enduring topics in
studies of the social world, and scholarly advances in these areas
are particularly pertinent in times of social and cultural change.
The digital revolution that began in post-industrial societies has
affected, to varying extents, most nations in the world,
introducing new opportunities for crime commission and law
enforcement, transforming social structures and organization, and
altering norms and practices of social interaction. Each chapter
offers empirically supported insights into the new and evolving
landscape of criminality and policing. Scholars address emerging
patterns and practices such as technologically mediated intimate
partner violence, digitally altered pornography and its
consequences, and algorithm-supported methods of policing;
representations of criminals and law enforcement in international
news and entertainment media; and research methods for studying
crime and media in a changing world.
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