Introduction : the disciplined and the delinquent -- Humilitainment, Inc. : policing the criminal on primetime -- Watching the night creatures : crimesploitation and boredom -- Cuffs of love : punishment and redemption in crimesploitation -- Middlebrow crimesploitation -- Epilogue : w(h)ither crimesploitation?
Summary
A critical analysis of how reality crime TV shows helped Americans acclimate to a world in which mass incarceration and rising inequality became the ""new normal.""
