TRUE CRIME CONFERENCE – PROGRAMME

Narration 9am – 10.15am (15 minutes per paper plus 15 minutes Q and A)

1. NOTORIOUS: journalism, dramatisation and crime.

Bethany Usher, Newcastle University

2. Portrayal of the Deep Psychological Menace in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me

Prerana Chakravarty, Tezpur University, Assam, India.

3. Images of death and grief in true crime documentaries about the mafia

George S. Larke-Walsh, Sunderland University

4. Murder Tales – True Crime Narratives between Fact and Fiction

Nicholas Beckmann, Free University Berlin

Podcasting and blogging 10.30 – 11.30am (15 minutes per paper plus 15 minutes Q and A)

1. The Daniel Morgan murder - podcasts, police and press

Ciaran Goggins, Independent/ investigative reporter

2. A Police-Run True Crime Podcast: A Comparison of Justice in State Crime Command - Investigations, Bowraville, and Phoebe’s Fall

Lili Pâquet, Univ of New England, Australia

3. Serial Offenders? The troubles and triumphs of true crime podcasting

Katrina Clifford, Deakin University, Australia & Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia

1130 – 1300 LUNCH BREAK

1300 Keynote speaker: Ian Punnett, author of Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives

Ethics 1330 – 1500 (15 minutes per paper plus 15 minutes Q and A)

1. Murder in Our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an age of Globalised News

Romayne Smith Fullerton, University of Western Ontario and Margaret Patterson, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

2. Exploring ethical dilemma in investigative reporting: A study of the BBC African Eye Baby Stealer episode

Jimi Kayode, Raheemat Adeniran & Shukurat Bankole, Lagos State University

3. Curing an Ethical Hangover: A Forensic Examination of the Potential of the Post True Crime Movement

Nina Jones, Univ of Birmingham

4. Comments on the Reporting by Dutch Online-Only News on the Essex Lorry Deaths

Dr Ilse A. Ras, Leiden University

5. Women’s Empathic Interventions in True Crime Storytelling –

Ruth Fogarty, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Websleuthing & Participation 1515 – 1630 (15 minutes per paper plus 15 minutes Q and A)

1. Forensic Fandom: Citizen investigation, websleuthing and the dark side of true crime fandom

Bethan Jones - independent researcher

2. Exploring the presence of the digital detective within the true-crime genre and its online spaces

Farhana Irshad, St Mary’s University

3. “I’m not a journalist. I don’t think that I necessarily fall under the same rules that they do.”: Journalistic ethics in true crime podcast production

Kelli Boling - Univ of Nebraska

4. Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK

Marianne Colbran, Visiting fellow, LSE, UK

1630: WRAP UP AND GOODBYE