El género true crime y la criminología: una introducción

Vicente Garrido Genovés

doi:10.24310/bc.30.2024.20681

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Vicente Garrido Genovés Universidad de Valencia Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/bc.30.2024.20681

Keywords:

True crime, criminology, literature and audiovisual narrative, teaching of criminology

Abstract

The genre of true crime has known a great development in the past ten years, although its origin can be traced to the XVI century. We present in this paper an introductory analysis about the relationship between this narrative genre and criminology. We stress two points. Firstly, that true crime, as cultural products, are tools to create criminological knowledge in the meanings developed by McGregor: phenomenological, counterfactual and mimetic-descriptive. Secondly, that given the plasticity and variety of themes considered, this genre has an important role as a teaching tool in our discipline. We offer also a classification of the different types in
which true crime can be presented, in the literature as well as audiovisual narrative.

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