This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprizing a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, Crime and Media: A Reader tackles a wide range of issues including: understanding media; researching media; crime, newsworthiness and news; crime, entertainment and creativity; effects, influence and moral panic; and cybercrime, surveillance and risk. Specially devized 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 provides 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.
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
