Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : state, mass media, and the new Moroccan authoritarianism
  • Police on trial : the Tabit Affair, newspaper sensationalism, and the end of the Years of Lead
  • "He butchered his wife because of witchcraft and adultery" : crime tabloids, moral panic and the remaking of the Moroccan cop
  • Crime-page fiction : Moroccan true crime and the new independent press
  • Prime-time cops : blurring police fact and fiction on Moroccan television
  • The Moroccan "serial killer" and CSI : Casablanca
  • From Morocco's 9/11 to community policing : state advertising and the new citizen
  • Epilogue : "the police are at the service of the people."