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Hello. As far as I know I've only made one appearance in private eye but it hurt, it hurt.

In a brief paragraph I was described as criminal fancier Laurie Taylor.

And what made it hurt was the was the kernel of truth because although at the time I was a proper criminologist with a couple of books to my name,

I couldn't always manage to keep my academic

interest in crime away from my personal relationships with real criminals and with their

representation in the media. So when John McVicker escaped from Durham prison in October 1968

I found myself occasionally conflating the real knowledge I'd acquired about John

during the seminars I led with him in jail from the media's constant portrait of him as Britain's most wanted man.

I even allowed myself to join in the media circus by popping up on the local radio station

and sort of colluding with the idea that John could only have escaped so successfully

with the help of the underworld. In fact, he did it all by himself.

All of which meant that I was particularly fascinated to come across a research paper in the journal Crime, Media and Culture, which specifically looks at the manner in which one criminologist became involved in a high-profile media event.

A week-long police search for Raoul Moat in the summer of 2010. media event,

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