TY - BOOK AU - Sparks Richard TI - Television and the Drama of Crime / Moral Tales and the Place of Crime in Public Life SN - 335093272 PY - 1992/// PB - Open University Press N2 - The relations between watching ''cop shows'' and the extent and intensity of public fear and alarm about crime. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Crime and Television and Social Anxiety, Moral Tales and Social Theory, Entertaining the Crisis? Television and Moral Enterprise, Television and Dramatization and the Fear of Crime, A Piece of the Action: Approaches to Content in Television Crime Fiction, The Moral World of Television Crime Stories, A Long Goodbye, Notes, References, Index ER -