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True crime stories


  • Here are entered works on nonfiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.
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    • Crime narratives, Nonfiction
    • Crime narratives, True
    • Crime stories, True
    • Nonfiction crime narratives
    • True crime narratives
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    • found: Work cat.: Biressi, A. Crime, fear and the law in true crime stories, c2002:p. 1 ("non-fiction narratives based on actual events, packaged and promoted for entertainment as 'leisure reading'") p. 2 ("a form which proffers the reader stories of lived experiences of crime, violence and murder")
    • found: Provost, G. How to write & sell true crime, c1991.
    • found: McQueen, K. Murder in old Kentucky : true crime stories from the Bluegrass, c2005.
    • found: Boucher, A. Pocket book of true crime stories, 1943.
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2006("a non-fiction genre in which the author uses an actual crime and real people as a point of departure; frequently marked by biographical treatment of the criminals and victims, attempts to explain criminal psychology, and descriptions of police investigations and trial procedures") July 16, 2012 (True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Depending on the writer, true crime can adhere strictly to well-established facts in journalistic fashion, or can be highly speculative. ... The modern genre, which most often focuses on murders, is frequently marked by biographical treatment of the criminals and victims, attempts to explain criminal psychology, and descriptions of police investigations and trial procedures.)
    • found: Wilson, C.P. Learning to live with crime : American crime narrative in the neoconservative turn, c2010.
    • found: Crime Narratives in Context (CNIC): a Cardiff Research Network, via Cardiff Humanities Research Institute website, viewed July 16, 2012:home page (a multidisciplinary research network that brings together a range of scholars whose research interests relate to the production, transmission and interpretation of crime narratives)
    • found: Rassendren, G. Truman Capote and the true crime narrative, viewed online July 16, 2012.
    • found: Rodensky, L. The crime in mind, c2003:p. 221 (Capote's later and last work of nonfiction crime narrative, Handcarved Coffins)
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    • Here are entered works on nonfiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.
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    • 2006-11-30: new
    • 2012-10-10: revised
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