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Crimesploitation The Cultural Lives of Law Edited by Austin Sarat Crimesploitation Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2022 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kaplan, Paul, 1968– author. | LaChance, Daniel, 1979– author. Title: Crimesploitation : crime, punishment, and pleasure on reality television / Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance. Other titles: Cultural lives of law. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022. | Series: The cultural lives of law | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021062079 (print) | LCCN 2021062080 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503613683 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503631731 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503631748 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: True crime television programs—United States—History and criticism. | Reality television programs—United States—History and criticism. | Crime on television. | Punishment on television. Classification: LCC PN1992.8.T78 K37 2022 (print) | LCC PN1992.8.T78 (ebook) | DDC 791.45/6556—dc23 /eng20220302 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062079 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062080 Cover design: Michel Vrana Cover photos: iStock For our mentors: Elaine Tyler May, Lary May, and Austin Sarat (DL) Kitty Calavita, Simon Cole, Valerie Jenness, and Richard Leo (PK) Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Disciplined and the Delinquent 1 1 Humilitainment, Inc.: Policing the Criminal on Primetime 17 2 Watching the Night Creatures: Crimesploitation and Boredom 38 3 Cuffs of Love: Punishment and Redemption in Crimesploitation 70 4 Middlebrow Crimesploitation 92 Epilogue: W(h)ither Crimesploitation? 117 Notes 127 Index 157 Acknowledgments It takes a village to “raise” a book, and we are grateful for the feedback of colleagues who offered feedback and advice on this project at various stages: Michelle Brown, Hank Fradella, Stuart Henry, Caley Horan, Alex Milla, Ryan Murphy, Keramet Reiter, Alessandra Rellini, and Colin Reynolds. Particular thanks go to Renée Cramer and Ashley Rubin, who read and com- mented on multiple drafts of the manuscript. Michelle Lipinski’s editorial enthusiasm for this project in its earliest stages convinced us to turn it into a book and submit it to the “Cultural Lives of the Law” series at Stanford University Press. We are grateful for the support of the press and, in par- ticular, Sunna Juhn and Marcela Maxfield. Emory undergraduate students Sueda Polat and Jenna Yun provided exceptional research assistance. Finally, we appreciate the ongoing intellectual and logistical support we receive from our colleagues in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University and the Department of History at Emory University. Parts of the introduction and chapters 2 and 4 have been published elsewhere in different forms. Some of the material on To Catch a Predator ap- peared in Law, Culture, and Humanities 15, no. 1 (2019): 127–50. Some of the material on Making a Murderer appeared in Crime, Media, Culture 16, no. 1 (2020): 81–96. We introduced crimesploitation as a term in contributions to The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2017) and The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology (2017). Our work has benefited from feedback we received from colleagues at the Annual Meetings of the American Criminology Society, the Asso- ciation for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, the Law and
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