Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest. This work brings together a range of papers from researchers addressing issues of fictional, factual, and hybrid representations in the media - the so called docu-dramas and faction.

Captured by the Media explores the increasingly important issue of media and popular discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. In providing such an analysis this book draws upon work from academics, prison and media practitioners, addressing questions of cultural constructions and consumptions of penal discourse in media and culture. This book turns on the television, opens the newspapers, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture and investigates the regimes of penal representation. It places...

Prevention and social exclusion are central concerns for those developing current UK policy and practice, and for those concerned with enhancing child welfare provision. The UK government has placed the prevention of the consequences of social exclusion a

Prevention and social exclusion are central concerns for those developing current UK policy and practice, and for those concerned with enhancing child welfare provision. The UK government has placed the prevention of the consequences of social exclusion a

Policing and the Media provides an up-to-date overview of the changing dynamics and dimensions of the relationships that exist on the British police-media nexus. Factual, fictional and factional representations of policing in the media are the major - and for a great many citizens probably the sole - influence in shaping their perceptions and opinions about crime, law and order, community safety, police efficiency and integrity, not to mention the efficacy of criminal justice and penal policy. This book deals with all three representations, noting the lines between such clear...