A guarantee of safety, a cautionary tale or a celebration? Popularity of true crime narratives through the lens of Mary Douglas’s concepts of pollution and defilement

Joanna Antoniak
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Abstract

The fascination with crime, hastily described by some as a symptom of moral degradation of Western culture, seems to be a defence mechanism used by individuals to deal with social transgressions and anomalies represented by serious crimes. The aim of this article is to analyse the growing popularity of true crime through the lens of Mary Douglas’s theory of purity and pollution, with a particular emphasis on the methods of dealing with anomalies appearing within conceptual schemata of a given culture. For this purpose, the text has been divided into four parts: the first part briefly presents the history of true crime; the second part analyses the idea of murder through the lens of Douglas’s theory; the third part discusses the reasons behind the popularity of true crime narratives; and the fourth part showcases how individuals use true crime stories as tools to deal with anomalies.
安全保证,警世故事还是庆祝?通过玛丽·道格拉斯的污染和污秽的概念,真实犯罪叙事的流行
对犯罪的迷恋,被一些人匆忙描述为西方文化道德退化的症状,似乎是个人用来应对严重犯罪所代表的社会违法和反常现象的一种防御机制。本文的目的是通过玛丽·道格拉斯的纯粹与污染理论来分析真实犯罪日益流行的情况,特别强调处理特定文化概念图式中出现的异常现象的方法。为此,本文分为四个部分:第一部分简要介绍了真实犯罪的历史;第二部分从道格拉斯理论的角度分析了谋杀的概念;第三部分论述了真实犯罪叙事盛行的原因;第四部分展示了个人如何利用真实的犯罪故事作为处理异常情况的工具。
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