Themes Of Crime Research Articles

Media Representations of Homelessness in Three Mid-Sized Canadian Cities: Integrative Review and Comparative Analysis

The media play a pivotal role in framing narratives about complex social issues like homelessness. This study conducts a comparative analysis to evaluate how homelessness is portrayed within print and social media in three Canadian mid-sized cities. We explore similarities and differences between news print media and Facebook conversations on the broad topic of homelessness with respect to temporal distributions of discussions about homelessness, conversations about encampments, the diversity of voices included in social and print media reports, and the use of stereotypical and stigmatizing discourse about homelessness. Our study reveals seasonal variations in discussions about homelessness within traditional media, while social media maintains a more consistent conversation throughout the year. In both media types, however, the discussions about encampments are frequently intertwined with themes of crime and addiction. Moreover, we observe greater inclusion of voices from individuals with lived experience in print media. We find that discussions within both platforms echo common myths associated with homelessness, perpetuating negative conceptions in the broader community. In light of our findings, we advocate for greater editorial oversight on how discussions about homelessness are framed in print media, technological advancements to control negative conversations on social media platforms and encourage the inclusion of voices from those with lived experience. Our research contributes to an underexplored area, as we illuminate the mechanisms of discourse that shape public perceptions and attitudes about homelessness in both print and social media.

ПРЕСТУПЛЕНИЕ И НАКАЗАНИЕ В ФИЛЬМАХ ВУДИ АЛЛЕНА И РОМАНЫ Ф.М. ДОСТОЕВСКОГО: АДАПТАЦИЯ И ТРАНСФИГУРАЦИЯ

The author considers the films by American scriptwriter and director Woody Allen, connected with the traceable over the course of his creative activity theme of crime and punishment, demonstrating cross-cutting motives connected with novels of F.M. Dostoevsky, first of all The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment. Alongside with analysis of certain changes in a way of Allen’s tackling of semantic sense bearing conceptions of this filmic body frame treated by the contemporary American author and represented in characteristic of his narrative manner intertextuality, convergence of genres and styles, the article deals with the major discursive vehicles intercepted from the Russian classic as distinguished by M.M. Bakhtin: the great dialogue as the pivotal characteristic of polyphony of his novels, personages’ duplicity and carnivalization of the action.

From Niche Narrative to Audio Blockbusters

From Niche Narrative to Audio Blockbusters

The Genre and Trends of Crime Fiction in Nigeria

The field of crime fiction in Nigeria remains under-explored in scholarly discourse. This lacuna is particularly notable given the absence of comprehensive academic works dedicated to this genre. Crime fiction, which delineates narratives surrounding criminals, their crimes, detection and investigation processes, and underlying motivations, has been a prolific subject in Nigerian creative literature. Despite the substantial body of Nigerian literary works delving into themes of crime, punishment, and motivation, it is intriguing that the genre has not garnered significant critical analysis. This study adopts a diachronic approach to trace the historical evolution of crime fiction in Nigeria. It further investigates various sub-genres within this literary category and examines how a multitude of socio-political dynamics have influenced the thematic focus of Nigerian crime fiction. The study posits that crime fiction is gaining relevance in contemporary Nigerian society. It reveals that a significant corpus of these narratives grapple with issues such as colonialism, militarism, corruption, government apathy towards human and national development, and other opaque political and economic elements that perpetuate Nigeria’s precarious journey towards democratic stability.

An Approach to the Reception of Crime Theme in Contemporary Germany

<p>犯罪題材的創作無論在西方或東方都有悠久的歷史，而不同的文化在交匯後又碰撞出了新的火花、促成了更多的內容與風格變化。如今，許多國家都有世界級的犯罪小說家，舉凡美國的丹．布朗、德國的瑟巴斯提昂．費策克、挪威的尤．奈斯博、日本的東野圭吾、中國的紫金陳……等。甚至隨著科技日新月異與媒體轉型，題材的呈現方式又被賦予了更多的可能性，從以往的書本到如今的多媒體影音。顯然，犯罪題材至今仍於許多國家受到歡迎，甚至成為了不同種族、年齡、性別、階級的共同愛好。在眾多國家中，由以德國民眾對於犯罪題材的喜愛特別鮮明，因此本論文將以犯罪題材之悠久歷史為基礎，釐清其於德國當代之接受與發展，並分析德國民眾對其情有獨鍾之現象。</p> <p> </p><p>The creation of crime-themed works has a long history in both western and eastern worlds. Different cultures have collided and sparked new ideas, leading to more content and stylistic changes. Nowadays, many countries have well-known crime writers, such as Dan Brown from the US, Sebastian Fitzek from Germany, Jo Nesbo from Norway, Higashino Keigo from Japan, and Zijin Chen from China. With the rapid development of technology and media transformation, there are even more possibilities for presenting crime themes, like from books to multimedia. There is no doubt that crime themes are still popular in many countries and have become a shared interest among different races, ages, genders, and classes. Among many countries, Germany people’s love for crime themes is especially noticeable. Therefore, based on the long history of crime themes, this article will clarify the reception and the development in contemporary Germany, and analyze the phenomenon of German people’s love for these themes.</p> <p> </p>

Upaya Kebijakan Kriminalisasi dalam Penegakan Hukum Tindakan Prank di Masyarakat Melalui Saluran Streaming

The aim of the prank is to make the person, in this case the victim, feel pranked, thereby creating a sense of satisfaction in the prank maker. There are various types of pranks, including pranks that use a crime theme, such as kidnapping, pointing a sharp weapon, or acting as a thug who pretends to threaten the victim of his prank. However, not all pranks end in jokes or antics, excessive pranking can cause losses and also victims. These prank actions include actions that create pros and cons, whether these actions can fall into the category of criminal acts that require criminal sanctions or are just guidance.

THE STATE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM DURING COVID-19: A STUDY ON PRINT MEDIA OF BANGLADESH

This study seeks to find out how investigative reporting was portrayed in Bangladeshi print media during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. This study applied the content analysis method to examine the investigative reports (N=58), followed by a quantitative and thematic approach to assess the state of investigative journalism practice in Bangladesh. The findings of this study revealed that the theme of crime and health-related issues has received the highest attention in investigative reports. Some investigation reports focused primarily on COVID-19 related issues, with medical equipment and hospital safety settings being the most often reported subjects. The study also found some notable discourse stating that government officials have mostly been cited as the primary source in investigative journalism. In addition, a substantial number of unnamed sources were also found in these reports. However, future studies can assess the quality of the investigative reports through textual analysis carried out over a longer period.

낭만주의 시와 교정: 코울리지와 워즈워스의 시에 나타난 감옥 개혁

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between Romantic poetry and correction by reading together Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem and William Wordsworth’s printed in Lyrical Ballads (1798). Both Coleridge and Wordsworth participated in prison reform which was part of the great movement to reform British society in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I argue that Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote “The Dungeon” and “The Convict” respectively in response to John Howard’s demand for prison reform. Moreover, both poets appropriate Caleb Williams’ lamentation over the horrible conditions of the dungeon that marks unjust and unhealthy treatment of the incarcerated in William Godwin’s novel Caleb Williams. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth were equally fascinated and obsessed with the themes of crime and punishment in their early poems. More precisely, Coleridge deeply elaborates upon the mysterious effects of guilt and repenting process in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Osorio. Wordsworth, meanwhile, endeavors to grapple with the question of guilt and the miscarriages of the legal justice in the Salisbury Plain Poems and The Borderers. While Coleridge focuses on the physical condition of the prison in “The Dungeon,” Wordsworth’s poem penetrates into the heart of the condemned in “The Convict” through the observer-speaker’s sympathy. Yet both poems emphasize the efficacy of wholesome environment that helps prisoners to repent their crimes and consequently to redeem the criminals from their guilt. In conclusion, both Coleridge and Wordsworth urge the necessity for correction of the correction system by critiquing the limits of the legal institution and prison facilities.

Преступник и «природное зло» в рассказах Г. Ф. Лавкрафта

The purpose of the research is to study the features peculiar to the image of a criminal in H. P. Lovecraft’s creative work. Using the material of the short story “The Loved Dead” (1923), the researcher studies the image of a criminal and the motif of natural, irrational evil in H. P. Lovecraft’s creative work. The paper is novel in that it deepens the ideas that have developed in science on H. P. Lovecraft’s moral position, on how the main theme of world literature related to the comprehension of the theme of crime and punishment was interpreted in his prose. As a result, the features peculiar to the image of a criminal in H. P. Lovecraft’s creative work have been studied. The history of the creation of the story “The Loved Dead” (1923) has been considered, its imagery has been analysed. The researcher has outlined the social and literary context of the work, its place in the literary process of the USA and its significance for the writer’s creative evolution.

The Study of Foucault’s “The Composition of Forces” in Shutter Island (2003)

The American author Dennis Lehane, published his masterpiece Shutter Island in 2003. In his psychological novel, alongside the thrilling themes of crime and crisis, a heavy undercurrent of power and punishment grabs reader's attention. From a literary philosophical side, Foucauldian notions of madness, “the composition of forces” upon the mentally disturbed patients, could captivate a critic’s attention. It is therefore, beneficial to analyze the Dissociative Personality Disorder of the protagonist of the novel. The present study aims to investigate “the composition of forces” in Shutter Island (2003) based on Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975). Foucault in his book scrutinizes “the composition of forces,” how individuals and bodies are placed, and redirected in larger machines, like choosing good soldiers and training them for army. Among Foucault’s ideas, “the composition of forces” has been considered as one of the primary and essential tools of maintaining the disciplinary power. The study concludes that the main character of the novel shows resistance and denial through his process of treatment. In fact, his Dissociative Identity Disorder is a manifestation of the way he wants to escape from the superintending forces of the disciplinary power.

Gaya Komunikasi Dalam Berita Televisi (Produksi Pesan Pada Program Berita “Pojok Kampung” JTV Dan Penerimaan Pesan Di Kalangan Masyarakat Jawa Timur)

The application of regional languages in the news program Kampung Corner JTV is interesting to serve as a study material, where news program Corner Kampung JTV is using the Java Regional Timuran with a “Suroboyo-an” dialect in the news. The uniqueness of the language of Suroboyo-an, which is the local culture of East Java, is packed in a news theme of crime information and the latest info that became one of the Kampung Corner program in JTV. The purpose of this study for: 1). Describe and analyze the communication style from news program “Kampung Kampung” JTV in text level. 2). Describe and analyze the communication style of production the news program message “Kampung Kampung” JTV in the context level. 3). Describe and analyze the communication style of message reception of news program “Kampung Kampung” JTV among East Java society in context level. Aspect of communication in this study for reveal how communication styles are divided into two between high context communication with low context communication in Kampung JTV Corner program with the theory approach presented by Edward T. Hall (1976). The theory of communication style Edward T. Hall does have a close relationship with intercultural communication, it have relation to the mass media of its assessment with low and context context communication approach high. How the mass media perform their duties as a medium of information, convey information to the community with approaches that are closer and friendlier to the culture adopted by the local community. The approach of the theory of message production uses the theory of the construction of social reality which divides into three concepts, namely Externalization, Objectivation, Internalization which is deliver by Peter L. Berger (1966) and also the approach of message reception which divides the three positions, dominant position, oppositional position and negotiation position delivered by Stuart Hall (1980), they will be used by writers to know the production and reception of messages in mass communication news program “Kampung Kampung” JTV in text and context level.This research uses Qualitative method with single case study approach in Kampung Corner program. The research location is located at Surabaya JTV Office. This research was also conducted in Eastern part of East Java (etan) which is Surabaya City and West Java area of West (Kulon) Ponorogo City. 1) the results of the visual and verbal images of the village corner using low context communication style (low context communication) on the message of the crime theme and the latest news 2). Producing contextlevel messages using the construction of social reality with the concept of Internalization on th message of the crime theme and the latest info happening through the language in everyday life that is packed in news programs corner of the village of JTV. Language reflects reality, but simultaneously can create reality, 3). Acceptance of context level messages visually and verbally news program corner of the village of JTV among the people of East Java Etanan easily accepted and in the East Java community Kulonan use of vocabulary in the Corner Kampung impressed not polite. For the future it is expected that have a cultural communication approach in mass communication to explore communication styles related to message production and message reception of television programs among the people of East Java. And with other methods approach, such as approach of quantitative method or mix method to get the result by data and wide sample. In order that the results of further research will be used as a strong basis valid and can be tested the truth or can made reference by data and methodology.Keywords: Communication Style, Local TV,Message Production, Message Reception, “Pojok Kampung”JTV

Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance: TheRoman de Gérard de NeversIlluminated by the Wavrin Master and Loyset Liédet

Scholars of medieval literature have shown how the presence of legal concepts—such issues as honor, justice, betrayal, and vengeance—is a constant in the narratives of this period. Yet far less attention has been paid to examining how these ideas were given visual expression in illuminated manuscripts of these texts, which helped disseminate knowledge of such legal practices as judicial duels among their aristocratic audience of kings, dukes, lords, and knights. This study focuses on the visualization of justice in Burgundian prose romances, tales whose plots are dominated by themes of crime and punishment. In particular, it discusses the interaction of text and image in two manuscripts of the mid-fifteenth-century Roman de Gérard de Nevers—a text belonging to the “wager cycle,” in which judicial proceedings are placed center stage—that were illustrated by the Wavrin Master and Loyset Liédet, respectively: Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 9631; and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 24378. Analysis of three key judicial episodes in the text, the wager itself and two trials by combat, reveals the very different interpretations of the work offered by these two artists. While Liédet is chiefly concerned with evoking the splendor and ceremony of the chivalric deeds that the tale recounts, the Wavrin Master brings out as fully as possible the legal lessons of the narrative, using iconographic conventions more familiar from manuscripts of canon and customary law texts and treatises on trial by battle.

South African Serial Homicide: A Victim‐Focused Behavioural Typology

AbstractThis current study assessed the value of the Interpersonal Model in differentiating serial homicide offences in South Africa, notably in terms of how the offender may display behavioural patterns that are indicative of them dealing with the victim as a Person, an Object, or a Vehicle. The sample consisted of 302 offences committed by 33 offenders that occurred from 1953 to 2007 in South Africa. Multidimensional scaling analysis was used to test the Interpersonal Model and results indicated that crime themes did not directly correspond to the threefold model. Instead, two crime scene types were present: Victim as Object (where the focus was on tangible gains, interaction with the victim throughout the phases of the crime was limited, and victims included men and live women) and Victim as Vehicle (where the victim might be construed as a conduit through whom the offender could realise their specific psychological needs, the interaction was extensive, and victims tended to be vulnerable). South African serial homicides did not appear to have a specific sub‐theme of Victim as Person, suggesting that the themes engaged in centred more on instrumentally focused actions but in qualitatively different ways. However, victim types were integral to the overall behavioural model. Using the Victim as Object/Vehicle dichotomy, 85.7% of the offences could be seen to engage dominantly in one of the two patterns at the crime scene. This not only supported the results of a twofold model, but having these many offenders showing a dominant crime scene type also shows that the model is an excellent representation of serial homicide offending in South Africa. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

O crime popular: publicidade literária e regeneração na Primeira República

This article is based in partial conclusions of our research about crime and delinquency in the nineteenth century Brazil. Making use of crime literature from the period as historical reference in our investigation, more specifically Joao do Rio’s work of fiction Memorias de um rato de hotel, this present article has the intention to comment the literature field in which this novel was published, admiring the popularity of crime as source of sensational novel and news report content. Simultaneously, we intend to notice some comments of the intellectual people, which influenced the republican regeneration project, about this literature and newspaper publishing logic, observing an “illness” condition that appears to be attached to this crime theme literary-newspaper works.

O crime popular: publicidade literária e regeneração na Primeira República

This article is based in partial conclusions of our research about crime and delinquency in the nineteenth century Brazil. Making use of crime literature from the period as historical reference in our investigation, more specifically João do Rio’s work of fiction Memórias de um rato de hotel, this present article has the intention to comment the literature field in which this novel was published, admiring the popularity of crime as source of sensational novel and news report content. Simultaneously, we intend to notice some comments of the intellectual people, which influenced the republican regeneration project, about this literature and newspaper publishing logic, observing an “illness” condition that appears to be attached to this crime theme literary-newspaper works.

Self-serving aspects of social cognition among adult offenders

The different cognitive beliefs about offending exhibited by offenders are discussed. The question addressed in this paper concerns the extent to which beliefs and social knowledge about offending differentiate between different characteristic types of offending (drug abuse, theft, sexual and violent). Two hundred and ninety adult male prisoners in four Taiwanese prisons provided self-reported criminal histories. From these a crime index indicative of the proportion of offences of each type (or specialism in offending) was calculated for each offender. Offenders legitimize their own offending while they tend to regard the offences of others negatively. In this way, cognitive representations may reinforce an offender's specific pattern of criminal acts while also insulating them from pressures towards other criminal activities. Evidence is presented that offenders' social knowledge development is consolidated around crime themes.

Crime capital of Australia: The Gold Coast on screen

ABSTRACTThe Gold Coast has a crime problem, which will not come as a surprise to the viewers of the films and television programmes that feature Australia's sixth largest city. The vast majority of material set on the Gold Coast has criminal themes. The Gold Coast is an imagined city created, to a large degree, by a multiplicity of moving image artefacts produced by visitors. From the miles of amateur footage shot by tourists to pseudo-Hollywood blockbusters, the Gold Coast exists as a surf and sun paradise, at least in the minds of audiences around the world. However, analysis of a variety of moving image products suggests that not far behind the glitz and glamour of the beach-based boosterism is the grimy flip side of crime, corruption and desperation. This imagined paradise is encircled by sharks, both from the sea and the land. But the crime themes explored so far by the Gold Coast film industry do not address the real transgressions on which the city is founded, neither the deals that saw a city built on sand and swamp nor the dispossession of the original inhabitants.

Johnny Swanson (review)

Reviewed by: Johnny Swanson Elizabeth Bush Updale, Eleanor . Johnny Swanson. Fickling/Random House, 2011. [384p]. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-385-75199-5 $19.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-385-75198-8 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-375-89688-0 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-8. Johnny Swanson, the smallest kid in his class, secretly spends three shillings that he and his widowed mother can't spare in response to an ad that promises the "Secret of Instant Height." The answer by return post, "Stand on a box," doesn't increase his stature, but it does inspire him with a host of ideas for scams of his own, which he promptly launches to help keep the landlord at bay when the rent comes due. Johnny digs himself ever deeper in lies to keep his enterprise going in a small 1929 village where everyone knows everybody's business, and soon he's concocted a cover story of an ailing aunt on a visit who has a modest mail-order needlework trade of her own. Johnny's petty swindle pales, though, beside a truly heinous crime in the neighborhood: Dr. Langford, known for his good works at a tuberculosis sanitarium, is found slain in his home; his wife is missing; and Johnny's mother, who cleans house for them, is arrested as the killer. Johnny strongly suspects that the murder may be related to Langford's covert work on a TB vaccine used by the French but banned in Britain, and as the boy investigates to save his mother, his own life is on the line. There's flair and entertainment here for sure, but the two crime themes don't always mesh as smoothly as one might like, lurching in tone from comic mischief to mortal peril, and wrapping up on a note of new dad/new stepsister/ happy ever after. While this may be a far cry, stylistically, from the sure-handed panache of Updale's Montmorency series (Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman, BCCB 4/04, et al.), younger readers who prefer their mysteries diluted with a dash of humor may still feel they're getting their money's worth. [End Page 349] Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Is Heavy Rain in The Forecast?

f "1 k j? International v^rime 6l Mystery J. MADISON DAVIS is Heavy rain IN THE FORECAST? Writers everywhere in every genre can't help but wonder what the future holds in publishing. Will there be paper books? Will all books be electronic? Or will the nature of the electronic "book" alter the current forms of storytelling in the book form beyond all recognition, changing what is written and why? The mystery has proved itself to be a very flexible form that has adapt ed itself to a variety of changes in media and culture over the last cen tury and a half, but can it survive the next fifty years? Some commentators have argued that even the crime drama as it is presented in motion pictures and television is losing trac tion with younger viewers, in fact that all television is losing its impact, because a young person is more likely to spend time on Facebook or Twitter than passively viewing cops chasing robbers. Drama is also more expensive to create than reality and talk shows. NBC's recent attempt to lighten their weeknight lineup of Law and Order: SVU and other dra mas and replace them with Jay Leno may have failed for the moment, but it might be a harbinger of what will be available on networks in the future. The only thing anyone can be sure of is that we won't know what the future holds until it gets here. The western and the variety show used to be staples of television. Now they are essentially gone. Perhaps there is an approach to these forms that will revitalize one or both, but in the meantime their fans are left with reruns on cable channels like TV Land and Encore Western. It seems unlikely the paper book will disappear entirely, and most crime writers I know assume it will last long enough to keep them plotting murders for some time. We still have playwrights, though the public at large only occasionally goes to plays. Maybe young mystery writers ought to learn something about screenwrit ing to hedge their bets, and, strange ly enough, maybe they should trunk about games. July-August 2010 i 9 Crime & Mystery When we think of games revolving around crime themes, the classic board game Clue comes immediately to mind. Invented by Anthony E. Pratt, an Englishman and a solicitor's clerk, appropriately enough, it received a patent in 1947. He called his game Cluedo, and it was brought to the United States in 1949 by Parker Brothers, who renamed it for the American mar ket. As the iconic mystery game, it inspired many variations in pre sentation, including one based on The Simpsons, a version using video tape, and an odd espionage version. Clue also inspired a particularly bad movie in 1985, an alleged comedy whose only attraction was a trifecta of alternate endings, and a television series in the United Kingdom. The characters in the game were derived from the stereotypes of traditional British mysteries, clich?s that are the essence of the style. We might not remember the name of the character played by Sean Connery in director Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Ori ent Express, but we never forget that Connery is the "Colonel Mustard" of the plot, as there is a "Miss Scarlet" and other Clue avatars. The "state ly manor" is evoked by the game board rooms: the Conservatory, the Ballroom, etc. Evidently Mr. Boddy (the enigmatic victim) is never mur dered in the loo. As with Sherlock Holmes's flat, which also seems to lack such a room, plumbing is not of consequence in this fantasy world. The game is basically a simple pro cess of elimination (ahem!). Howev er, the simplicity of Clue was not just one of its attractions (easy to learn and play), but also meant it was easy to program for the early home computer market. It showed up in several computer versions for the Commodore 64, Sega Genesis, and other now-so-suddenly-antiquated game systems. Yet, as a video game, there is little that cannot be done with Clue that will improve it. Better graph ics is...

Non-Urban Noirs: Rural Space in <i>Moonrise</i>, <i>On Dangerous Ground</i>, <i>Thieves’ Highway</i>, and <i>They Live by Night</i>

Despite the now-traditional tendency of noir scholarship to call attention to the retrospective and constructed nature of this genre— James Naremore argues that film noir is best regarded as a “mythology”— one feature that has rarely come under question is its association with the city (2). Despite the existence of numerous rural noirs, the depiction of urban space is associated with this genre more consistently than any other element. Even in critical accounts that attempt to deconstruct the solidity of the noir genre, the city is left as an implicit inclusion, and the country, an implict exclusion. Naremore, for example, does not include the urban environment in a list of the central tenets of film noir that he calls into question: “nothing links together all the things described as noir—not the theme of crime, not a cinematographic technique, not even a resistance to Aristotelian narratives or happy endings” (10). Elizabeth Cowie identifies film noir a “fantasy,” whose “tenuous critical status” has been compensated for “by a tenacity of critical use” (121). As part of Cowie’s project, to revise the assumption that noirs are almost exclusively male-centered, she cites character types, visual style, and narrative tendencies, but never urban spaces, as familiar elements of noir that ought to be reconsidered. If the city is rarely tackled as an unnecessary or part-time element of film noir in discursive studies, it is often the first trait identified by critics in the kind of formative, characteristic-compiling studies that Cowie and Naremore work against.