Criminal justice in the middlebrow imagination: the punitive dimensions of Making a Murderer
Popular documentary representations of crime and punishment have traditionally tended to fall into two camps: programs that are critical of law enforcement agencies and those that are sympathetic to them. In this article, we show how programs that present themselves as critical of legal authorities...
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Crime, media, culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-96 |
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