Learning to live with crime [electronic resource] : American crime narrative in the neoconservative turn / Christopher P. Wilson.
"Since the mid-1960s, the war on crime has reshaped public attitudes about state authority, criminal behavior, and the responsibilities of citizenship. But how have American writers grappled with these changes? What happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not throug...
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The Ohio State University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Getting wise(guys) : the witness protection narrative
- The box in the box : putting interrogation in prime time
- The time of the crime : cold case squads and neoconservative social memory
- Risk management : Frank Abagnale Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure
- "Doing time" : keepers, brothers, and the prison exposé
- Epilogue : public secrets.