Prime-time murder: Presentations of murder on popular television justice programs

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 12-38

  Soulliere, Danielle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

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