Youth, murder, spectacle Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Youth in Crisis	3
	From Crime to Common Sense	10
	An Endless Host of Accidents	14
	Disgust and Desire	19
2	The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility	23
	Deviance and Social Control	29
	Crime, Crisis, and Hegemony	38
3	News and Sensations: On Images of Crime	45
	Crime Stories	46
	Images and the Obviousness of Crime	50
4	"Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder	61
	The "Rough Sex" Explanation	65
	The Influence of the Social	69
	Discourses of Transgression	71
5	The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self-Evidence"	75
	Stories of Murder	78
	Murder Confessions and Misogyny	83
	Subjectivity and the "Self-Evidence" of Confession	85
	The Disciplinary Power of the Sexual Confession	90
	On the Spectacle of Confession	92
6	Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show	97
	Aspects of the Daytime Talk Show's Evidential Procedures	99
	Television and Talk	103
	Mobile Evidence	105
	Evidence, Bodily Display, and Crisis in the Making	107
	The Domestic and Crisis-in-Process	111
7	The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze	115
	Discourses of the Adult in Youth Films	118
	The Spectacle of the Living (Dead) Teenager	122
8	The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States	135
	Evading Ideology	136
	Growing Up Scared	140
	Wild in the Streets?	145
	Notes	147
	References	153
	About the Book and Author	163
	Index	165