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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction -- A Brief History of the Media Portrayal of Crime and Criminals; Further Reading; 2. Applying Theoretical Perspectives on the Media to Crime; Media Effects -- Hypodermic Syringe Model and Developments from that; The media effects model explored: Mass society and social behaviourism; The copycat syndrome; Cultural effects theory; A critique of the media effects model(s); Sociological Theorizing; Critical/Marxist perspectives; Consensus perspectives -- pluralism and functionalism |
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Postmodern/cultural CriminologyFurther Reading; 3. The Media and Moral Panics -- Theories and Examples; Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics; Young: Drug Use and Moral Panic; Explaining Moral Panics: Goode and Ben-Yehuda; Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics -- A Critique; Moral Panics in History; Garotting; The European witch craze; Recent Moral Panics; Hoodies; Paedophilia; Revisiting the Notion of Moral Panics; Further Reading; 4. The Media Portrayal of Criminals; The Media, Age and Criminals; The Media, Gender and Criminals; The Male Gaze; Karla Homolka; Tracie Andrews; Rose West; Amanda Knox |
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Intimate Partner Killings and Victim BlamingSexuality; Aileen Wuornos; Fictional Representations; The Media, Ethnicity and Criminals; The Media, Criminals and 'Criminal Communities'; The Media, Class and Criminals; Further Reading; 5. The Media Portrayal of Victims; Theories and Methods of Research in Victimology; Radical victimology; Critical victimology; Deserving and undeserving victims; The positive influence of the media; Groups victimized by the media; Ethnic minorities as victims; Asylum seekers as victims; The media, murder and secondary victims |
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Theorizing Surveillance: The Role of CCTV and Surveillance in the Representation of and Support for VictimsThe frustration of CCTV footage; Phone Hacking and Secondary Victimization -- The Leveson Inquiry; Further Reading; 6. The Media and the Criminal Justice System; Media Portrayal of the Police; Media Portrayal of the Courts/legal System; Media Portrayal of Prisons; Further Reading; 7. New Media Technology and Crime -- Cybercrime; The Media Revolution -- The Proliferation of the Internet; Everyday lives and the Internet; The Emergence of Cybercrime; Defining cybercrime; Cyber violence |
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Cyber obscenityCyber trespass; Cyber theft; Cyber Obscenity -- Paedophilia and the Internet; Cyber Violence -- Hate Speech; Cyber Violence -- Terrorism; Cyber Violence -- Cyber Stalking; Cybercriminals; Secrecy and anonymity; Egalitarian criminality; Differential association syndrome; Robin Hood syndrome; Motivations and explanations for cybercriminality -- Hirschi and control theory; Social Networks and Crime; Victimization and social networks; Policing Cybercrime; Further Reading; 8. The Media, Punishment and Public Opinion; Public Opinion, Crime and the Media -- 'Penal Populism' |
| Summary |
Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. This expanded and fully updated second edition considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media through history, applying different theoretical perspectives to the way crime, criminals and justice are reported. The second edition of Crime, Justice and the Media focuses on the media representation of a range of different areas of crime and criminal justice, including:new media technology e.g. social ne |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crime in mass media.
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Mass media and criminal justice.
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05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime in mass media
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Mass media and criminal justice
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Brottslighet i massmedia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melville, Gaynor
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| ISBN |
9781134087150 |
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1134087152 |
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9780203519110 |
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0203519116 |
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9781134087297 |
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1134087292 |
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9781134087228 |
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1134087225 |
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0415813905 |
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9780415813907 |
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