Overview

This topic draws on popular culture and the meditated nature of our contemporary digital world to explore how we encounter crime. The topic engages with a vast array of phenomenon (e.g. news media, film, documentary, television shows and podcasts) to explore the ways that crime is packaged, represented and consumed. … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce students to the different ways that crime pervades our lives (on the news, in books, on Social Media and on the screen as entertainment etc.)
  • Provide a conceptual overview of the complex ways that we consume crime in society (and how this has evolved in the past 100 odd years)
  • To prompt students to explore why - despite being fearful of/disturbed by crime - we find it alluring and crave vicarious exposure to it

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