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The Rise of True Crime

20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture

By: Jean Murley

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The Rise of True Crime

20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture

By: Jean Murley

During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. The Rise of True Crime examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative effects of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it. With skyrocketing crime rates and the appearance of a frightening trend toward social chaos in the 1970s, books, documentaries, and fiction films in the true crime genre tried to make sense of the Charles Manson crimes and the Gary Gilmore execution events. And in the 1980s and 1990s, true crime taught pop culture consumers about forensics, profiling, and highly technical aspects of criminology. We have thus now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. Through the suggestion that certain kinds of killers are monstrous or outside the realm of human morality, and through the perpetuation of the stranger-danger idea, the true crime aesthetic has both responded to and fostered our culture's fears. True crime is also the site of a dramatic confrontation with the concept of evil, and one of the few places in American public discourse where moral terms are used without any irony, and notions and definitions of evil are presented without ambiguity. When seen within its historical context, true crime emerges as a vibrant and meaningful strand of popular culture, one that is unfortunately devalued as lurid and meaningless pulp.

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The Rise of True Crime

20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture

By: Jean Murley

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Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety

Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s

By: Paul W. MacAvoy,Jean W. Rosenthal

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Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety

Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s

By: Paul W. MacAvoy,Jean W. Rosenthal

Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation. Given its high-cost nuclear facilities, doing so required a corporate turnaround. For a decade Northeast faced increasing public and employee resistance to cost cutting at its nuclear plants. Though management achieved many of its goals, curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of frequent, prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. Did management's deliberate cost-containment strategy take nuclear operations to an inevitable regulatory shutdown, and if so, why? Was it the pursuit of executive compensation tied to cost containment that caused undue risk of regulatory shutdown? Paul MacAvoy and Jean Rosenthal describe ten years of corporate performance preceding the shutdown, detailing aggressive executive decisions, mounting regulatory actions in response to increasingly severe operational failures, and--at the same time--overall improvement in corporate earnings, stock prices, and executive pay packages. They relate the complexities of managing declining nuclear plant operations under ever more pressing budgetary targets. Their discussion of the increasing risk of outages raises the issue of the tradeoff of profit and conservative management of hazard operations. All the more timely in light of the massive 2003 East Coast blackout, Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety represents a powerful and cautionary commentary on industrial practices that goes to the heart of effective corporate governance.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223823

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Alternative and Mainstream Media

The converging spectrum

By: Linda Jean Kenix

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Alternative and Mainstream Media

The converging spectrum

By: Linda Jean Kenix

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Historically, alternative media have been viewed as fundamental, albeit at times culturally peripheral, forces in social change. In this book, however, Kenix argues that these media do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that are so central to mainstream media - in fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always been based on the professional standards of the mainstream. Kenix goes on to posit the perception of 'mainstream' and 'alternative' as a misconception. She argues that, although alternative media can - and do - construct distinct alternative communications, they have always existed on the same continuum as the mainstream and the two will continue to converge. Through comparative analysis, this book argues that many alternative and mainstream media are merging to create a continuous spectrum rooted in commercial ideology. Indeed, much of what is now considered alternative media actually draws very little from principles of the independent press, whereas many contemporary mainstream media now use communication techniques more commonly associated with media that do not operate for financial gain. This book puts forward a controversial but convincing argument around the relationship between alternative and mainstream media, drawing on examples from the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand to strengthen and develop the central premise.

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A&C Black

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1849665435

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Library Ethics

By: Jean Preer

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Library Ethics

By: Jean Preer

The evolution of ethical standards for librarians parallels the development of librarianship as a profession. Our most important professional values have been tested and debated in the course of formulating and adopting our codes of ethics. This book includes historical precedents and current examples of ethical issues facing the profession. It looks broadly at the many arenas in which librarians face ethical choices, helping practitioners identify an ethical dilemma and providing guidance on how to respond, how to separate personal belief from professional responsibility, and how to make exceptions in a principled way. Where appropriate references are included to the codes of ethics of other professions: journalists, booksellers, and lawyers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598848542

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Is the Fetus a Person?

A Comparison of Policies Across the Fifty States

By: Jean Reith Schroedel

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Is the Fetus a Person?

A Comparison of Policies Across the Fifty States

By: Jean Reith Schroedel

As much a model for future research as a study of the status of the fetus, this book offers an examination of one of the most divisive and complex issues of American life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cornell University Press

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0801437075

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The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery

Essential Information from a Female Plastic Surgeon

By: Jean M. Loftus

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The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery

Essential Information from a Female Plastic Surgeon

By: Jean M. Loftus

Describes common cosmetic surgical procedures, choosing a surgeon, important questions to ask before surgery, costs and fees, and expected results from each procedure.

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340

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0809225832

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9780809225835

Lionel Murphy

The Rule of Law

By: Lionel Murphy

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The Rule of Law

By: Lionel Murphy

Discusses decisions of Murphy J. in Onus v Alcoa, re special interest of Gournditch-jmara people in relics at Portland; in Koowarta, re validity of Racial Discrimination Act; and in Neal v R re mitigating factors in appeal against conviction at Yarrabah.

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0959066624

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The Rise of True Crime

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Library Ethics

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Is the Fetus a Person?

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The Smart Woman's Guide to Plastic Surgery

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