Forschung: “When serial killers go unseen”

“The case of Trevor Joseph Hardy”. By David Wilson, Harriet Tolputt, Nick Howe, and Diane Kemp in Crime, Media, Culture 6.2 (August 2010), pp. 153-167. Abstract: “This article presents a case study of the serial killer Trevor Joseph Hardy — who murdered three young women in Manchester, England between 1974 and 1976, and who is now one of Britain’s longest serving prisoners. Even so, Hardy and his crimes are almost unknown. As such, the article uses the Hardy case to consider academic definitions of ‘newsworthiness’ and the assertion that the rise of the mass media has made serial killing a ‘media event’. Through a series of interviews with journalists who covered the case, the article suggests possible reasons as to why Hardy has disappeared from popular and academic consciousness”.

Außerdem findet sich im neuen Heft von Crime, Media, Culture eine Rezension zu The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture: Jean Murley, Praeger: Westport CT, 2009 (vgl. den NuT-Eintrag).

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