Crime, film and criminology: Recent sex-crime movies

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-420

  Rafter, Nicole ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime and popular culture; crime films; cultural criminology; law films; sex crime films

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547483408     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480607079584     Document Type: Article

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