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Media & crime / Yvonne Jewkes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Key approaches to criminologyPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xi, 334 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781446272527 (hbk.)
  • 1446272524 (hbk.)
  • 9781446272534 (pbk.)
  • 1446272532 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Media and crime
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ebook version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 302.234 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.C74 J48 2018
Contents:
Theorizing media and crime -- The construction of crime news -- Media and moral panics -- Media constructions of children : 'evil monsters' and 'tragic victims' -- Media misogyny : monstrous women -- Police, offenders and victims in the media -- Crime films and prison films -- Crime and the surveillance culture -- The role of the Internet in crime and deviance -- (Re)conceptualizing the relationship between media and crime.
Summary: This text guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics and media and the police to 'reality' crime shows, surveillance and social control.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.

Theorizing media and crime -- The construction of crime news -- Media and moral panics -- Media constructions of children : 'evil monsters' and 'tragic victims' -- Media misogyny : monstrous women -- Police, offenders and victims in the media -- Crime films and prison films -- Crime and the surveillance culture -- The role of the Internet in crime and deviance -- (Re)conceptualizing the relationship between media and crime.

This text guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics and media and the police to 'reality' crime shows, surveillance and social control.

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