ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a foundation upon which crime and media modules can be structured – taking in a diversity of theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches, old and new, orthodox and alternative, and along the way testing and expanding the limits of enquiry in media criminology. It offers theoretically, methodologically and empirically authoritative readings on established, new and emerging debates within media criminology. The book aims to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the study of crime and media by drawing from a diversity of relevant literatures, knowledge bases, and theoretical and methodological perspectives. It provides an acknowledgement of the acute need for a reinvigorated interdisciplinarity in crime and media research, and it is hoped that its users will approach individual readings and the wider crime-media nexus with that in mind.
