The Culture of Crime

by Craig L. LaMay

There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation "story" than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime has been about the human condition, and whether information comes from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a bottom about the human capacity for cruelty and suffering, about desperation and fear, about sex, race, and public morals. Facts are important to the telling of a crime story, but ultimately less so than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560008261
• ISBN13: 9781560008262
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages