Media & crime
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Media & crime
（Key approaches to criminology）
SAGE, 2011
2nd ed
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Media and crime
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Previous ed.: 2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-305) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The bestselling Media and Crime returns with a fully revised and updated new edition. Established in the field as the market leader, the book explores the complex interactions between media and crime from a critical and authoritative standpoint.
Retaining and updating coverage of the core issues in the subject: news reporting of crime; media constructions of children and women; moral panics; media and the police; 'reality' crime shows; surveillance and social control, the book now also includes:
- additional chapters on cybercrime and crime film
- updated content on new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites
- discussions on how to research media and crime
- fully updated references and student-friendly features - including discussion questions, further reading and glossary.
Its lucid and engaging style, thought-provoking content and panoramic coverage of key debates and issues make this the text on media and crime. Essential reading for students in criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology, academics and researchers.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Theorizing Media and Crime
Media 'Effects'
Strain Theory and Anomie
Marxism, Critical Criminology and the 'Dominant Ideology' Approach
Pluralism, Competition and Ideological Struggle
Realism and Reception Analysis
Late-Modernity and Postmodernism
Cultural Criminology
The Construction of Crime News
News Values for a New Millennium
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann: A Newsworthy Story par Excellence
News Production and Consumption in a Digital Global Marketplace: The Rise of the Citizen Journalist
News Values and Crime News Production: Some Concluding Thoughts
Media and Moral Panics
The Background to the Moral Panic Model
Problems with the Moral Panic Model
The Longevity and Legacy of the Moral Panic Model: Some Concluding Thoughts
Media Constructions of Children: 'Evil Monsters' and 'Tragic Victims'
1993 - Children as 'Evil Monsters'
1996 - Children as 'Tragic Victims'
Guilt, Collusion and Voyeurism
Moral Panics and the Revival of 'Community': Some Concluding Thoughts
Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Feminist Perspectives
Honourable Fathers Vs. Monstrous Mothers: Some Concluding Thoughts
Police, Offenders and Victims in the Media
The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
The Role of the Police
Crimewatch UK
Crimewatching Crime: Some Concluding Thoughts
Crime Films and Prison Films
The Appeal of Crime Films
The Crime Film: Masculinity, Autonomy, the City
The 'Prison Film'
The Documentary
The Remake
Discussion
Concluding Thoughts
Crime and the Surveillance Culture
Panopticism
The Surveillant Assemblage
From the Panopticon to Surveillant Assemblage and Back Again
'Big Brother' Or 'Brave New World'?: Some Concluding Thoughts
The Role of the Internet in Crime and Deviance
Redefining Deviance And Democratization: Developing Nations and the Case of China
'Ordinary' Cybercrimes
Childhood, Cyberspace and Social Retreat
Concluding Thoughts
(Re)-Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media and Crime
Doing Media-Crime Research
Stigmatization, Sentimentalization and Sanctification: The 'Othering' of Victims And Offenders
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