Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Both the Victorian age and the late 20th century are often characterized by contemporaries as times of apparent affluence and stability, but also by a perceived threat to that stability. The essays here examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context of social panic and moral outrage.
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