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Armchair Detectives and Armchair Thieves

The Police Journal: Theory,Practice and Principles

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First published online April, 1998

Armchair Detectives and Armchair Thieves

Volume 71, Issue 2

https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X9807100210

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Kidd-Hewitt

(1995) “Crime and the Media: A Criminological Perspective”, in Kidd-Hewitt

Osborne

(Eds.) Crime and the Media: The Post-Modern Spectacle, Pluto Press.

Soothill

Walby

(1995) Sex Crime in the News, Routledge.

Emsley

(1996) Crime and Society in England 1750–1900, 2nd edn, Longman.

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