Crimes and punishments
2019
Book
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres – from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions – hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crime fiction has long held appeal for the reading public, the ways that crimes play out in the real world are often more complex, compelling and shocking than the most complicated imagined plots. Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments tells stories of reform and possibility from inside our institutions, from the greatest to the smallest of their participants. It tells stories of state-sanctioned violence, of justice after decades of systematic failures and betrayals, of truths, lies and assumptions, and of the ones that get away.
Main title:
Crimes and punishments / edited by Ashley Hay.
Author:
Hay, Ashley, editorGriffith University, issuing body
Work:
Imprint:
South Brisbane, QLD : Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
291 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Griffith review ; 65.
ISBN:
9781925773798 (paperback)
Dewey class:
364.994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
355314