{"id":840,"date":"2019-05-31T10:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/?p=840"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:31:35","slug":"tortoise-thinkin-why-do-we-fear-criminals-and-love-true-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2019\/05\/31\/tortoise-thinkin-why-do-we-fear-criminals-and-love-true-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise ThinkIn \u2013 Why do we fear criminals and love true crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/fach\/louise-hewitt\">Louise Hewitt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/fach\/camille-stengel\">Camille Stengel<\/a> of <strong>The School of Law &amp; Criminology <\/strong> were invited to take part in a ThinkIn last week on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evensi.uk\/tortoise-thinkin-fear-criminals-love-true-crime-fora-fitzrovia\/298396563\">why we fear criminals and love true crime.  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tortoise ThinkIn - Why do we fear criminals and love true crime?\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aMdJPOtRG_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tortoisemedia.com\/book-a-thinkin\/\"><strong>Tortoise ThinkIn <br><\/strong><\/a>Miscarriages of justice are, statistically speaking, a rarity. \u00a0Violent crime is nasty and cruel. And yet the world of podcasts and documentaries has been revived by the true crime genre, much more so than film or books. \u00a0Some say crime stories are social pacifiers, a means of asserting the social order. Others say it\u2019s a way of exploring what we are capable of. What appeals about it? \u00a0Does it obscure or illuminate human nature and the way the criminal justice system really works? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Hewitt and Camille Stengel of The School of Law &amp; Criminology were invited to take part in a ThinkIn last week on the topic of why we fear criminals and love true crime. Tortoise ThinkIn Miscarriages of justice are, statistically speaking, a rarity. \u00a0Violent crime is nasty and cruel. And yet the world of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2019\/05\/31\/tortoise-thinkin-why-do-we-fear-criminals-and-love-true-crime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tortoise ThinkIn \u2013 Why do we fear criminals and love true crime?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","tag-the-school-of-law-criminology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}