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Index Abbott, David P., 143–44 The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, 2007), 172 An Account of the Apprehension, Trial, Conviction, and Condemnation of Manuel Philip Garcia and Jose Demas Garcia Castillano (1821), 196 Ackerman, Hans-W., 214n Adams, Eliphalet, 187 Adler, Je√rey S., 6 adult fiction, murder narratives in, 3, 4 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain, 1876), 7 aesthetics of murder, 33 After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (Samuel Cohen, 2009), 203–4 ahistoricity: attributed to Nancy Drew series, 141–42; historical novels and, 204; Jameson’s theory of contemporary historical amnesia, 203–4 A Is for Alibi (Grafton, 1982), 3 Alcott, William, 36 Alder, Christine M., 52 Alexie, Sherman, 172 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll, 1865) and antigallows movement, 26, 60–91; Carroll’s possible interest in capital punishment issues and, 70–73; centrality of capital punishment in Victorian life, 61, 69; coded references in Alice, 73–74; direct references to capital punishment in Alice, 77– 83; importance of antigallows movement in mid-nineteenth century, 61–62, 68–69, 81–82; juvenile agency and, 85–89; lack of enforcement of capital punishment satirized , 83–85; popularity of Alice in U.S., 60–61; published vs. original gift version of Alice, 80–81, 82; realities of capital punishment in Victorian Britain, 61, 64–68; Tenniel illustrations, 71, 74n, 76; trials parodied , 74–77; U.S. capital punishment and, 89–91 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Disney animated film, 1951), 61 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (live-action film, 2010), 61 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Carroll, original gift version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , 1862), 80–81, 82 Allen, James, 14 Allison, Dorothy, 126 The Amboy Dukes (Shulman, 1946/1948), 157, 161, 164, 168, 169 The American Bloody Register (1784–present), 2, 195 American Library Association, 172 American Pastoral (Roth, 1997), 204 American Society for Psychical Research, 124 An American Tragedy (Dreiser, 1925), 3 The Amityville Horror (film, 1979), 4, 180 Anderson, Elijah, 176 Anderson, Hans Christian, 7 Anderson, Robyn, 51 Annals of Murder; or, Daring Outrages, Trials, and Confessions, &c. (1845), 2 anthropology, criminal. See Tarzan of the Apes and criminal anthropology antigallows movement. See Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and antigallows movement Apel, Dora, 14 apes in Tarzan of the Apes, 93–94, 96, 99, 109–11 Archie McPhee, 207 Asher, Robert, 25 Austen, Jane, 158 252 Index Avon Books, 152 Awful Disclosures! (1846), 197 Awful Disclosures and Startling Developments, in Relation to the Parkman Tragedy (1849), 198–99 The Bad Beginning (Snicket, 1999), 9 Bad Dreams (Stine, 1994), 8 Baker, June, 52 Bantam Books, 154 Baranoski, Madelon V., 51 Barrie, J. M., 7 Barzilai, Shuli, 38, 43 Baum, L. Frank, 7 Beach House (Stine, 1992), 8 Beatles, 162 Beauclair, Stephanie Fae (‘‘Baby Fae’’), 215–16 ‘‘Beauty and the Beast,’’ 39 Bederman, Gail, 98 The Bell Curve (Hernstein and Murray, 1994), 116–17 Beloved (Morrison, 1987), 204 Benedek, Elissa P., 51 benefit of clergy, 13, 84, 85 Berkowitz, David (‘‘Son of Sam’’), 180 Bestial (Schechter, 1999), 180 Bettelheim, Bruno, 38, 42, 51 Bickford, Maria, 196 Big Moose Lake murder case (1906), 9 The Big Sleep (film, 1946), 4 Bill, the Gallactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires (Harrison, 1991), 210 biocriminology. See Tarzan of the Apes and criminal anthropology Bishop, Claire Huchet, 8 Bishop, Kyle William, 207 Black, Joel, 33 The Blackboard Jungle (Hunter, 1954), 157, 161 Black Demons: The Media’s Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype (Rome, 2004), 183–84 Blake, William, 29 Blomberg, Thomas G., 13 blood money, 12–13 The Bloody Chamber (Carter, 1979), 39n ‘‘the Bloody Code,’’ 65–66, 77 ‘‘Bluebeard’’ (Perrault version), 6 Blue Crush (film, 2002), 212 ‘‘the blue sense’’ in criminology, 128–29 Blum, Harold, 54 Boa, Kenneth, 123 bodily integrity, corporeality, and identity, 30, 91, 197 The Book Thief (Zusak, 2005), 34 Boon, Kevin Alexander, 210 Borden, Lizzie, 3, 5–6 Boston Society for Di√usion of Knowledge, 151n Bottigheimer, Ruth B., 39n, 40 Bouthoul, Gaston, 34 boys’ adventure books, 7, 92 Boyz N the Hood (film, 1991), 176 Brando, Marlon, 164 Brave New World (Huxley, 1931), 172 Brennan, Richard, 122, 125, 127, 128 A Brief Narrative of the Life and Confession of Barnett Davenport (1780), 195 Brighton trunk crime, 144 Brinton, Crane, 100 Bronski, Michael, 171 Brooks, Max, 206, 207 Broom, Romell, 90 Brown, Charles Brockden, 3 Brown, H. Rap, 200 Brown, Mary, 72 Buchanan, Josephine A., 51 Buchanan, Leonard ‘‘Lyn,’’ 125...

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