Detecting the nation : fictions of detection and the imperial venture.

Victorian critical interventions

Victorian critical interventions.

Policing and the media : facts, fictions and factions

[Policing and society series]

Policing and society series.

The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland

Working with disaffected students : why students lose interest in school and what we can do about it

PCP Professional

PCP Professional.

Foreword / Lancashire County Council -- School lives: fact and fiction -- Setting the Scene -- A problem shared? -- Putting the study in place -- Telling Tales out of School -- Children's voices -- Parents' voices -- Teachers and headteachers in the firing line -- Policy and Practice in Social Inclusion -- Different voices but similar tales -- Policy into practice -- Making changes happen -- No more villains.

Crime culture : figuring criminality in fiction and film

Continuum literary studies

Continuum literary studies.

Crime culture and modernity / Breaking boundaries : games, art and the image. Playing dead : crime as a social system / J.G. Ballard and conceptual crime / Revisiting noir. The female side of crime : film noir's Femme fatale and the dark side of modernity / confronting Fordism / Vixens and victims : criminal femininities. Dead dolls and deadly dames : the cover girls of American true crime publishing / Angels of death : criminal masculinities. Killer boys : male friendship and criminality in The butcher boy, elephant and boy a / targeting the hitman / Reading the criminal other. Risk management : Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure / crime culture and the Rear window paradigm