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“For the crime reporter, certain forms of selection bias can also take hold. ‘Narrative’ tends to mean characters — protagonists and antagonists, conflict and motivation — and crime writing has historically favored certain sorts of characters (white female murder victims, to take the most glaring example) to the exclusion of others. There’s a subtler danger, too, when we focus on stories of individual characters and crimes, because the greatest crimes, now and always, have been systemic, and systemic stories are harder to tell. One conspicuous upside of the current boom in crime reportage is that it has created space and demand and recognition for writing about crime that is more representative — and for an approach to crime writing that grapples more overtly with these risks.” —
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