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Media & crime: a critical introduction
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Publisher
SAGE
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 2nd ed.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Theorizing Media and Crime
Media 'effects'
Mass society theory
Behaviourism and positivism
The legacy of 'effects' research
Strain theory and anomie
Marxism, critical criminology and the 'dominant ideology' approach
The legacy of Marxism: critical criminology and corporate crime
Pluralism, competition and ideological struggle
Realism and reception analysis
Late-modernity and postmodernism
Cultural criminology
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
2. The Construction of Crime News
News values for a new millennium
Threshold
Predictability
Simplification
Individualism
Risk
Sex
Celebrity or high-status persons
Proximity
Violence or conflict
Visual spectacle and graphic imagery
Children
Conservative ideology and political diversion
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
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
3. Media and Moral Panics
The background to the moral panic model
How the mass media turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
The role of the authorities in the deviancy amplification process
Defining moral boundaries and creating consensus
Rapid social change - risk
Youth
Problems with the moral panic model
A problem with 'deviance'
A problem with 'morality'
Problems with 'youth' and 'style'
A problem with 'risk'
A problem of 'source'
A problem with 'audience'
The longevity and legacy of the moral panic model: some concluding thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
4. 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
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
5. Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women
Psychoanalytic perspectives
Feminist perspectives
Sexuality and sexual deviance
Physical attractiveness
Bad wives
Bad mothers
Mythical monsters
Mad cows
Evil manipulators
Non-agents
Honourable fathers vs. monstrous mothers: some concluding thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
6. Police, Offenders and Victims in the Media
The mass media and fear of crime
The role of the police
Crimewatch UK
Crimewatching victims
Crimewatching offenders
Crimewatching the police
Crimewatching crime: some concluding thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
7. Crime Films and Prison Films
The appeal of crime films
The crime film: masculinity, autonomy, the city
The 'Prison Film'
The prison film and the power to reform?
The Documentary
Documentary as Ethnography
The remake
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Taking of Pelham 123
Discussion
Concluding Thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
8. Crime and the Surveillance Culture
Panopticism
The surveillant assemblage
Control of the body
Governance and governmentality
Security and cybersurveillance
Profit
Voyeurism and entertainment
From the panopticon to surveillant assemblage and back again
'Big Brother' or 'Brave New World'?: some concluding thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
9. The role of the Internet in crime and deviance
Redefining deviance and democratization: developing nations and the case of China
Cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism
'Ordinary' cybercrimes
Electronic theft and abuse of intellectual property rights
Hate crime
Invasion of privacy, defamation and identity theft
eBay Fraud
Hacking and loss of sensitive data
Child pornography and online grooming
Childhood, cyberspace and social retreat
Concluding thoughts
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
10. (Re)Conceptualizing the Relationship between Media and Crime
Doing media-crime research
Stigmatization, sentimentalization and sanctification: the 'othering' of victims and offenders
Summary
Study questions
Further reading
Glossary
References
Index
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9781848607026
9781848607033
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