TY - GEN N2 - What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? 'Unwilling Executioner' argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716181 DO - doi AB - What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? 'Unwilling Executioner' argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. T1 - Unwilling executionercrime fiction and the state / AU - Pepper, Andrew, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PN3448.D4 ID - 756961 KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Politics and literature. SN - 9780191784347 TI - Unwilling executionercrime fiction and the state / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716181.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716181.001.0001 ER -