Crime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the Public by Boucher, Abigail; Grant, Tim; Jenkin-Smith, Daniel; Powell, Emily;

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Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Publication 8 February 2025
Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

ISBN 9783031808005
Binding Hardback
No. of pages108 pages
Size 210x148 mm
Language English
Illustrations XI, 108 p. 3 illus. Illustrations, black & white

Long description:

This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public. This book is based on a pilot project funded by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, entitled 'Genre, Pacing, and Narrative in Police Missing Persons Appeals' (Aug 2021-Nov 2022). The authors identify a missing persons appeal as a literary and linguistic genre in its own right and illustrate the problems that arise when the appeals writing process goes unregulated or unstudied: there is currently little-to-no official, national police guidance, regulation, or standard procedure for writing a missing persons appeal in the UK. The authors also identify opportunities for improving the writing and delivery of appeals by further (and more intentionally) applying crime fiction conventions, narrative devices, and pacing, to maximise audience reach and increase the chances of recovering a missing person. This book will be of particular interest to genre fiction scholars (particularly those interested in crime fiction), forensic linguists, and media studies scholars.