In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a ‘vast hall of mirrors’, Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual. Images of crime and crime control have now become almost as ‘real’ as crime and criminal justice itself; such that the meaning of both crime and crime control resides, not solely in the essential - and essentially false - factuality of crime rates or arrest records; but also in a contested...