What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

Author(s): Fleetwood, Jennifer,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/09/2024,
Pagination: 152 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions,
Published By: Notting Hill Editions,
Book Classification: True crime,
Dimensions: 197 x 132 x 143
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781912559534

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Over the past few decades, there has been a remarkable rise in the number of people who speak publicly about their experience of crime. These personal accounts used to be confined to the police station and the courtroom, but today bookshops heave with autobiographies by prisoners, criminals, police and barristers while streaming platforms host hours of interviews with serial killers, death-row residents, vigilantes and gang members.

In this fascinating new book, criminologist Jennifer Fleetwood examines seven infamous crime stories to make sense of this modern confessional impulse, including Howard Marks’s outlandish autobiography Mr Nice, Shamima Begum’s controversial Times interview, Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight appearance and Myra Hindley’s unpublished prison letters.

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