Criminal Visions

ISBN-13: 9781843920137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str.

Opis

Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Many people have had no direct contact and experience with the criminal justice system and therefore rely on media reports and representations, something which has important implications for public perceptions of law enforcement agencies, the courts and prisons as well as offenders and victims.

Spis treści

Introduction: visions of crime and justice  Part One: Criminal Visions in Context  1. From law and order to lynch mobs: crime news since the Second World War  2. Video violence: how far can you go?  3. 'Signal crimes': detective work, mass media and constructing collective memory  Part Two: Criminal Representations - Crimes and Criminals  4. Masculinity, morality and action: Michael Mann and the heist movie  5. Sex crime and the media: press representations in Northern Ireland  6. Organized crime: Mafia myths in film and television  7. Political violence, Irish Republicanism and the British media: semantics, symbiosis and the state  8. Mass media/mass murder: serial killer cinema and the modern violated body  Part Three: Criminal Decisions - Agencies and Agents  9. Photo stories and family albums: imaging criminals and victims on Crimewatch UK  10. Media representations of visual surveillance  11. Completing the 'half-formed picture'? Media images of policing  12. Film lawyers: above and beyond the law  13. British justice: not suitable for public viewing?  14. The screen machine: cinematic representations of prison

O autorze

Paul Mason is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He has written extensively in the field of crime and media, and is the editor of Criminal Visions: media representations of crime and justice (2003) and co-author (with Frank Leishman) of Policing and the Media: facts, fictions and factions (2003), both published by Willan Publishing. He is Editor of the Journal of Crime, Conflict and Media Culture.