Crime and Media : A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415422383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 601 str.

Chris Greer

Opis

This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, Crime and Media: A Reader tackles a wide range of issues including: theoretical perspectives; research methods; media influence; crime news and fiction; media, criminal justice and social control; and new media and surveillance technologies. Specially devised introductory and linking sections contextualize each reading and evaluate its contribution to the field, both individually and in relation to competing approaches and debates.

This book will provide a single source around which criminology, media and cultural studies modules can be structured, an invaluable revision and consultation guide for students, and an extremely useful resource for scholars writing and researching across a wide range of relevant fields.

Accessible yet challenging, and packed with additional pedagogical devices, Crime and Media: A Reader will be an invaluable resource for students and academics studying crime, media, culture, surveillance and control.

Spis treści

Introduction   Part 1: Understanding Media  1. The Public Sphere: An Encyclopaedia Article  2. The Medium is the Message  3. A Propaganda Model  4. Encoding/Decoding  5. An Introduction to the Information Age  6. Simulacra and Simulations  7. Neuromancer  Part 2: Researching Media  8. Research Approaches   9. Reading the News  10. The Determination of News  11. Dimensions of Genre  12. Frame Analysis  13. The Debate About Media Influence  14. Researching Cybercultures  Part 3: Crime, Newsworthiness and News  15. Press Ideology: The Politics of Professionalism  16. The Construction of News  17. What Makes Crime News?  18. The Social Production of News  19. The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice  20. Recovering Blackness - Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail’s Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence  21. She Should be Punished’: The 1983-1984 New Bedford ‘Big Dan’s’ Gang Rape’  Part 4: Crime, Entertainment and Creativity  22. The Typology of Detective Fiction  23. The Dialectics of Dixon: The Changing Image of the TV Cop  24. From the Hard-Boiled Detective to the Pre-Crime Unit  25. Casino Culture: Media and Crime in a Winner-Loser Society  26. The Gangster Film: Genre and Society  27. Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and Consumer Culture  28. Crimes of Style  Part 5: Effects, Influence and Moral Panic  29.  Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models   30. The Worrying Influence of ‘Media Effects’ Studies  31. From Bad Media Violence Research to Good: A Guide for the Perplexed  32. Living with Television: The Violence Profile  33. From Imitation to Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship Between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime  34. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers  35. Rethinking "Moral Panic" for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds’  Part 6: Cybercrime, Surveillance and Risk  36. Panopticism  37. The Viewer Society  38. The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of CCTV  39. (S)talking in Cyberspace, Virtuality, Crime and Law  40. Governance and the Internet  41. Communicating the Terrorist Risk: Harnessing a Culture of Fear Mythen  42. Regarding the Torture of Others

O autorze

Chris Greer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at City University, London. His primary research interests lie at the intersections between crime, media and culture, and he has published widely in this area. Chris is also founder and co-editor of the award-winning Crime Media Culture: An International Journal.