| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xi, 334 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Key approaches to criminology
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Key approaches to criminology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This text guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics and media and the police to 'reality' crime shows, surveillance and social control. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Media 'effects' -- Mass society theory -- Behaviourism and positivism -- The legacy of 'effects' research -- Strain theory and anomie -- Marxism, critical criminology and the 'dominant ideology' approach -- The legacy of Marxism: critical criminology and corporate crime -- Pluralism, competition and ideological struggle -- Realism and reception analysis -- Late-modernity and postmodernism -- Cultural criminology -- Summary -- Study questions -- Further reading -- News values for a new millennium -- Threshold -- Predictability -- Simplification -- Individualism -- Risk -- Sex -- Celebrity or high-status persons -- Proximity -- Violence or conflict -- Visual spectacle and graphic imagery -- Children -- Conservative ideology and political diversion -- The disappearance of Madeleine McCann: a newsworthy story par excellence -- News production and consumption in a digital global marketplace: the rise of the citizen Journalist -- |
| Subject |
Crime in mass media.
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Mass media and crime.
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Mass media and criminal justice.
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| Spine Title |
Media & crime |
| ISBN |
9781446272527 (hardback) |
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1446272524 (hardback) |
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1446272532 (paperback) |
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9781446272534 (paperback) |
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