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Title Media, process, and the social construction of crime : studies in newsmaking criminology / edited by Gregg Barak
Published New York : Garland Pub., 1994
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; volume 1690. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 10
Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1690
Garland reference library of the humanities. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 10
Contents Becoming a media criminologist : is "newsmaking criminology" possible? / Cecil E. Greek -- Newsmaking criminology as replacement discourse / Stuart Henry
Media, society, and criminology / Gregg Barak -- Crime news in the old West / Werner J. Einstadter -- Communal violence and the media : lynchings and their news coverage by The New York Times between 1882 and 1930 / Ira M. Wasserman and Steven Stack -- Crime in the news media : a refined understanding of how crimes become news / Steven Chermak -- Predator criminals as media icons / Ray Surette -- University professor or sadistic killer? : a content analysis of the newspaper coverage of a murder case / Harry L. Marsh -- Murder and mayhem in USA Today : a quantitative analysis of the national reporting of states' news / Robert A. Jerin and Charles B. Fields -- Patrolling the facts : media, cops, and crime / Renée Goldsmith Kasinksy -- Newsmaking criminology : reflections on the media, intellectuals, and crime / Gregg Barak
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Crime and the press.
Crime in mass media.
Mass media and criminal justice.
Form Electronic book
Author Barak, Gregg.
ISBN 0203726766 (electronic bk.)
1135886040 (electronic bk.)
9780203726761 (electronic bk.)
9781135886042 (electronic bk.)