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· CRIME WATCHING · CRIME WATCHING Investigating Real Crime TV Deborah Jermyn Published in 2007 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © Deborah Jermyn, 2007 The right of Deborah Jermyn to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Hardback ISBN: 978 1 84511 238 7 Paperback ISBN: 978 1 84511 239 4 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset in Palatino by JCS Publishing Services Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 The Birth of Crimewatch UK Contextualising the rise of real crime TV 19 2 From ‘Public Service’ to ‘Fear of Crime’ Television, anxiety and crime appeal programming 49 3 The Persistence of Vision Photography, temporality and the TV crime appeal 81 4 Someone to Watch Over Me CCTV and surveillance in real crime TV 109 5 Pleasure, Fear and Fortitude Women watching Crimewatch UK 141 Conclusion Negotiating boundaries in real crime and reality TV 171 Works Cited 181 Index 195 Published in 2007 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © Deborah Jermyn, 2007 The right of Deborah Jermyn to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Hardback ISBN: 978 1 84511 238 7 Paperback ISBN: 978 1 84511 239 4 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset in Palatino by JCS Publishing Services Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall · For Julia Jermyn · for everything Acknowledgements While carrying out the research for this book I have been fortu- nate enough to work with wonderful colleagues at the Southampton Institute and Roehampton University. Thanks in particular to Cathy Fowler, David Lusted, Karen Randell and Sean Redmond for their friendship and intellectual camaraderie; Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn for generously sharing their TV archive; Susie Hyde and TVR for helping me build my own; Stacey Abbott for always being a top ‘roomie’; and Su Holmes, for being the most insightful of readers, the most diligent of shoppers and the dearest of friends. I am grateful to Philippa Brewster at I.B.Tauris for sup- porting this project and for providing one of the highlights of (my) Glastonbury 2003 with her phone call commissioning this book. Thanks also to Roberta Pearson and Cindy Carter who pro- vided invaluable commentary on this work in its early stages, as did Charlotte Brunsdon; I am especially indebted to Charlotte too for being an inspiring teacher and writer, and for the endless encouragement she has given me over the years. Former col- leagues at New Scotland Yard continued to assist me after my return to academia, my particular thanks go to Stephanie Day and Nikki Redmond. I am also tremendously grateful to all the pro- duction personnel at the BBC and ITV who generously gave up their time to give me the interviews that have enormously enriched my research; thanks to Katie Thomson, Belinda Phillips, Jo Scarratt and Tim Miller. Finally, thanks also to my ‘partners in crime’ for always providing such interesting diversions away from the computer – to Fab, Kath, Steph, Tom, the two Abs, Law, Cath, Nova, Ryanne, Adam, Pam, Pat, Jules, Nick, Shân, Michael, Harad, Bella, Lisa, Portia and Steve especially – this summer I have real- ised more than ever how blessed I am to call you my friends. viii · CRIME WATCHING Part of Chapter 3 was previously published in ‘Photo Stories and Family Albums: Imaging Criminals and Victims on Crime- watch UK’, in Paul Mason (ed.), Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice, Devon: Willan, 2003. Part of Chapter 4 was previously published in ‘“This is About Real Peo- ple!”; Video Technologies, Actuality and Affect in the Television Crime Appeal’, in Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (eds), Under- standing Reality Television, London: Routledge, 2004, and part of the Conclusion was previously published in the Introduction to Understanding Reality Television. DJ August 2005
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