Reshaping true crime stories from the global margins : voicing the less dead /
"Focusing on minoritized and marginalized groups around the world, this interdisciplinary project aims to shed light on the misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and erasure of the lives and deaths of the most vulnerable members of society"--
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Francesca Borrione and Heather J. Macpherson
- 1. Visible but voiceless: the canonical five victims of Jack the Ripper and liminal spaces of victimhood / Rebecca Frost
- 2. Suicides that matter: national news media construction of youth bullycides / Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen
- 3. "From the wrong side of the tracks": Ethan Brown's Murder in the Bayou and the invisibilization of the Jeff Davis 8 / Marissa A. Zerangue
- 4. We're missing the point: the impossible victim, the less dead, and the search for Jermain Charlo / Alisha Grech
- 5. The Grim Sleeper films and the humanization of the women of South Central L.A. / Francesca Borrione
- 6. Tell me where you are--this happens everywhere: representations of femicide in Natalia Beristáin's 2022 film Noise / Heather J. Macpherson
- 7. Transgressions of the less dead: necropolitics of the subaltern in South Indian cinema / Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K Suresh
- 8. Pre-trial treatment of girl children by the police: three cases from Pakistan / Abdullah Khoso.