Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Crime Genre
Origins
Crime and the Law
Chapter 2 – Enter the Police
A Genre is Born
The Police and the Welfare State
Backlash
Dirty Harry
Crime and Civilization
Crime Dystopia: The Psychopath and the Serial Killer
Chapter 3 – Crime Scene: Sweden
A Beginning
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and the Nation
Crime and Nationality
The Young Savages of the Asphalt Jungles
The Hoodlum Film
The Politics of Crime
From Punishment to Reform and Back Again
Moral Panics and Crime Journalism
Print the Faction!
Chapter 4 – The 1960s and 1970s: Sjöwall and Wahlöö
Liberal-Conservative Criticism of the Welfare State
Criticism from within the Labour Movement
New Left Criticism of the Welfare State
Eco-Humanist or Green Criticism of the Welfare State
Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall
before Sjöwall and Wahlöö
Story of a Crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö from Freud to
Marx
The Film Adaptations
Chapter 5 – The 1980s: Leif G.W. Persson and Jan Guillou
Leif G.W. Persson
Jan Guillou
Chapter 6 – The 1990s: Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser
Henning Mankell
Håkan Nesser and the Eurocop from Neverland
Chapter 7 – Millennium Cops
Crime and punishment in the Age of War on Terror
'Europudding' Police
Son of Dirty Harry: Beck and the Iconic Rise of
Gunvald Larsson
Roslund and Hellström
Steig Larsson
Leif G.W. Persson: Downfall of the Welfare State
Chapter 8 – Into the Twilight
Cops and the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy
The Vigilante Cop and Right-wing Extremism
The Vigilante Cop and Fascism
The Challenge of Evil
Michael Tapper teaches film at Lund University. He has been a contributor to the Swedish National Encyclopaedia since 1989 and has served as film critic at the daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Malmo, Sweden, since 1999.
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