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Crime and media : a reader / edited by Chris Greer.

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, this book tackles a wide range of issues including: understandi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Greer, Chris (Chris R. H.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Routledge student readers.
Subjects:
Mass media and crime.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Understanding Media:
  • The public sphere: an encyclopedia article (1974)
  • The medium is the message (1964)
  • A propaganda model (1988)
  • Encoding-decoding (1980)
  • An introduction to the information age (1997)
  • Simulacra and simulations (1981)
  • Neuromancer.
  • 2. Researching Media:
  • Research approaches (1987)
  • Reading the news (1991)
  • The determinations of news photographs (1973)
  • Dimensions of genre (2000)
  • Frame analysis (1995)
  • The debate about media influence (2004)
  • Researching cybercultures (2000)
  • 3. Crime, Newsworthiness and News:
  • Press ideology: the politics of professionalism (1977)
  • The construction of crime news (2004)
  • What makes crime 'news' (1987)
  • The social production of news (1978)
  • The media politics of crime and criminal justice (1991)
  • Recovering blackness/repudiating whiteness (2005)
  • 'She should be punished': the 1983-1984 New Bedford 'Big Dan's ' gang rape (1992)
  • 4. Crime, Entertainment and Creativity:
  • The typology of detective fiction (1966)
  • The dialects of Dixon: the changing image of the TV cup (1994)
  • From the hard-boiled detective to the pre-crime unit (2006)
  • Casino culture: media and crime in a winner-loser society (2001)
  • The gangster film: genre and society (2005)
  • Monsters Inc.: serial killers and consumer culture (2007)
  • Crimes of style (1996)
  • 5. Effects, Influence and Moral Panic:
  • Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models (1963)
  • The worrying influence of 'media effects' studies (2001)
  • From bad research to good- a guide for the perplexed (2001)
  • Living with television: the violence profile (1976)
  • From imitation to intimidation: a note on the curious and changing relationship between the media, crime and fear of crime (2004)
  • Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of mods and rockers (1972-2002)
  • Rethinking 'moral panic' for a multi-mediated social world (1995)
  • 6. Cybercrime, Surveillance and Risk:
  • Panopticism
  • The viewer society: Michael Foucault's 'Panopticon' revisited (1997)
  • Working rules and the social construction of suspicion (1999)
  • (S)Talking in cyberspace: virtuality, crime and law (2003)
  • Beyond 'the Desert of the real': crime control in a virtual reality (2006)
  • Communicating the terrorist risk: harnessing a culture of fear? (2006)
  • Regarding the torture of others (2004)

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