Ethical Space Vol. 19 Issue 3/4

Special issue: True crime, ethics and the media

Guest editors: Barbara Henderson and David Baines

Guest editorial

True crime ethics: A timely interrogation - by Barbara Henderson

Papers

• Women's empathetic interventions in true crime storytelling - by Ruth C. Fogarty
• A police-run true crime podcast: A comparison of justice in State crime command - investigations, Bowraville, and Phoebe's fall - by Lili P quet
• The ethics of bearing witness: Subject empowerment versus true crime intrigue in Kim Longinotto's Shooting the mafia (2019) - by George S. Larke-Walsh
• Sympathetic or blame-worthy: The handling of ethical complexities in reporting on the victims of the 'Essex lorry deaths' by Dutch online-only news sources - by Ilse A. Ras
• Murder tales - True crime narratives between fact and fiction: A troubled relationship - by Nicholas Beckmann
• '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 - by Kelli S. Boling
• Websleuthing, participatory culture and the ethics of true crime content - by Bethan Jones

Article

• Curing an ethical hangover: A forensic examination of the potential of the post-true crime movement - by Nina Jones

Book reviews

John Mair on The BBC: A people's history, by David Hendy; Sue Joseph on Through her eyes: Australia's women correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine, edited by Melissa Roberts and Trevor Watson; Matthew Ricketson on Plagued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story, by Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers