ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|86 pages
Understanding media
part Section Two|106 pages
Researching media
part Section Three|90 pages
Crime, newsworthiness and news
chapter Reading 21|14 pages
‘She Should be Punished’: The 1983–1984 New Bedford ‘Big Dan’s’ Gang Rape (1992)
part Section Four|87 pages
Crime, entertainment and creativity
part Section Five|112 pages
Effects, influence and moral panic
chapter Reading 34|22 pages
Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers (1972–2002)
part Section Six|96 pages
Cybercrime, surveillance and risk