Media and Crime
A Critical Introduction
Translation: Ewa Magiera
Series: Media
Pages: 256
Book format: B5
Publication date: 2010
Publication date: 25.10.2010
Book description
Media and Crime is an accessible text with a strong pedagogic purpose, making it an ideal introduction to the study of crime and the mass media for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The author interrogates the most important literature in the field as well as moving the debates forward with new ideas and values.
Substantive topics of current interest are covered, including:
Substantive topics of current interest are covered, including:
- news reporting of crime
- media constructions of children and women as victims and offenders
- moral panics over paedophiles
- the relationship between the media and the police
- ‘reality’ crime shows
- surveillance and social control
- new media.
Authors
Yvonne Jewkes
Translation
Ewa Magiera
ISBN: 978-83-233-2827-8
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