Murder

Homicide is one of the most prominent crimes in the legal calendar, and it has provided a recurrent reference point for literature, cinema, television, photography, true crime documentaries, the arts and the humanities more generally. It uses examples from a variety of legal and non-legal source materials, including creative non-fiction, podcasts, literature, film, and trial transcripts. The subject examines in depth the ways in which criminal law and public culture makes sense of law, crime and killing.