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“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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Mystère-Magazine : un objet patrimonial

Belphégor
This article discusses the heritage value of Mystère-Magazine (1948-1976), a special-interest magazine on crime fiction, from a dual perspective. On the one hand, it examines the attempts at patrimonialisation made by Mystère-Magazine, which from the ...
Annabelle Marion
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From Convicts to Contemporary Convictions: Two Hundred Years of Australian Crime Fiction

Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2018
European Australia began in 1788 as an English jail, and from 1818 novels and stories appeared locally and in London about escaped convicts acting against free settlers, and sometimes Indigenous people resisting the taking of their land. Gold, discovered
Stephen Knight
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Bernard Heldmann and the Union Jack, 1880-83: The making of a professional author [PDF]

, 2014
This essay examines two little-known agents operating within the juvenile publishing market of the 1880s: the quality boys' weekly Union Jack (1880-83) and one of its key contributors, Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).
Vuohelainen, M.
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’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
The recent discourse on black feminism in Afrikaans literature is strongly influenced by powerful and activist-oriented writers like Ronelda Kamfer, Lynthia Julius, and Veronique Jephtas.
Courtneigh Ess
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Crime Fiction and Black Criminality

American Literary History, 2018
A remarkable number of US literature’s most recognizable criminals reside in mid-twentieth-century fiction. Between 1934 and 1958, James M. Cain gave us Frank Chambers and Walter Huff; Patricia Highsmith gave us Charles Bruno and Tom Ripley; Richard ...
Theodore Martin
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Financial Crime in Crime Fiction in Socialist Poland

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2017
Financial crime was one of the recurring themes in crime stories written in the period of socialist Poland. The writer who first undertook this subject was Leopold Tyrmand in his book “The Man with the White Eyes” (1955). The publication of this book is
Dorota Skotarczak
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Dementia and detectives: Alzheimer’s disease in crime fiction

Dementia, 2018
Fictional representations of dementia have burgeoned in recent years, and scholars have amply explored their double-edged capacity to promote tragic perspectives or normalising images of ‘living well’ with the condition.
D. Orr
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