A gruesome accounting : mass, serial and spree killing in the mediated public sphere

Sara L. Knox

A gruesome accounting : mass, serial and spree killing in the mediated public sphere

Sara L. Knox

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Abstract

This article sets out to examine the ideological work of discourses of typology in expert, media and popular accounts of multiple murder, with particular reference to the figuring of the relationship between killers and victim to fit a continuum of intimacies sexual, social and domestic.

Original language	English
Number of pages	14
Journal	[jc2m] : journal for crime\, conflict and media culture
Publication status	Published - 2004

Keywords

Murder
Serial murders
Mass murder
Criminology psychology
Criminology
Mass media and crime

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