Media and crime / Yvonne Jewkes.

By:

Jewkes, Yvonne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Key approaches to criminologyPublication details: Oliver's Yard : Sage, 2015.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xi, 334 p, : 25 cmISBN:

9781446272534

DDC classification:

302.234 JEW.M

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 Contents note continued: News values and crime news production: some concluding thoughts The background to the moral panic model How the mass media turn the ordinary into the extraordinary The role of the authorities in the deviancy amplification process Defining moral boundaries and creating consensus Rapid social change - risk Youth Problems with the moral panic model A problem with 'deviance' A problem with 'morality' Problems with 'youth' and 'style' A problem with 'risk' A problem of 'source' A problem with 'audience' The longevity and legacy of the moral panic model: some concluding thoughts 1993 - Children as 'evil monsters' 1996 - Children as 'tragic victims' Guilt, collusion and voyeurism Moral panics and the revival of 'community': some concluding thoughts Contents note continued: Psychoanalytic perspectives Feminist perspectives Sexuality and sexual deviance Physical attractiveness Bad wives Bad mothers Mythical monsters Mad cows Evil manipulators Non-agents Honourable fathers vs. monstrous mothers: some concluding thoughts The mass media and fear of crime The role of the police The role of mobile and social media in policing Crimewatch UK Crimewatching victims Crimewatching offenders Crimewatching the police Crimewatching crime: some concluding thoughts The appeal of crime films The crime film: masculinity, autonomy, the city The 'Prison Film' The prison film and the power to reform? The Documentary Documentary as Ethnography The remake The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Taking of Pelham 123 Discussion Concluding Thoughts Contents note continued: Study questions NSA, GCHQ and the new age of surveillance Panopticism The surveillant assemblage Control of the body Governance and governmentality Security and 'cybersurveillance' Profit Voyeurism and entertainment From the panopticon to surveillant assemblage and back again 'Big Brother' or 'Brave New World'?: some concluding thoughts Redefining deviance and democratization: developing nations and the case of China Cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism 'Ordinary' cybercrimes Electronic theft and abuse of intellectual property rights Hate crime Invasion of privacy, defamation and identity theft eBay Fraud Hacking and loss of sensitive data Child pornography and online grooming Childhood, cyberspace and social retreat Concluding thoughts Doing media-crime research Contents note continued: Stigmatization, sentimentalization and sanctification: the 'othering' of victims and offenders Further reading.

Summary: This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime. Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it 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. This third edition: explores innovations in technology and forms of reporting, including citizen journalism; examines the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites; features chapters dedicated to the issues around cybercrime and crime film, along with new content on terrorism and the media; shows you how to research media and crime; includes discussion questions, further reading and a glossary. Now features a companion website, complete with links to journal articles, relevant websites and blogs. This is essential reading for your studies in criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.

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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
Contents note continued: News values and crime news production: some concluding thoughts
The background to the moral panic model
How the mass media turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
The role of the authorities in the deviancy amplification process
Defining moral boundaries and creating consensus
Rapid social change - risk
Youth
Problems with the moral panic model
A problem with 'deviance'
A problem with 'morality'
Problems with 'youth' and 'style'
A problem with 'risk'
A problem of 'source'
A problem with 'audience'
The longevity and legacy of the moral panic model: some concluding thoughts
1993 - Children as 'evil monsters'
1996 - Children as 'tragic victims'
Guilt, collusion and voyeurism
Moral panics and the revival of 'community': some concluding thoughts
Contents note continued: Psychoanalytic perspectives
Feminist perspectives
Sexuality and sexual deviance
Physical attractiveness
Bad wives
Bad mothers
Mythical monsters
Mad cows
Evil manipulators
Non-agents
Honourable fathers vs. monstrous mothers: some concluding thoughts
The mass media and fear of crime
The role of the police
The role of mobile and social media in policing
Crimewatch UK
Crimewatching victims
Crimewatching offenders
Crimewatching the police
Crimewatching crime: some concluding thoughts
The appeal of crime films
The crime film: masculinity, autonomy, the city
The 'Prison Film'
The prison film and the power to reform?
The Documentary
Documentary as Ethnography
The remake
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Taking of Pelham 123
Discussion
Concluding Thoughts
Contents note continued: Study questions
NSA, GCHQ and the new age of surveillance
Panopticism
The surveillant assemblage
Control of the body
Governance and governmentality
Security and 'cybersurveillance'
Profit
Voyeurism and entertainment
From the panopticon to surveillant assemblage and back again
'Big Brother' or 'Brave New World'?: some concluding thoughts
Redefining deviance and democratization: developing nations and the case of China
Cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism
'Ordinary' cybercrimes
Electronic theft and abuse of intellectual property rights
Hate crime
Invasion of privacy, defamation and identity theft
eBay Fraud
Hacking and loss of sensitive data
Child pornography and online grooming
Childhood, cyberspace and social retreat
Concluding thoughts
Doing media-crime research
Contents note continued: Stigmatization, sentimentalization and sanctification: the 'othering' of victims and offenders
Further reading.

This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime. Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it 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. This third edition: explores innovations in technology and forms of reporting, including citizen journalism; examines the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites; features chapters dedicated to the issues around cybercrime and crime film, along with new content on terrorism and the media; shows you how to research media and crime; includes discussion questions, further reading and a glossary. Now features a companion website, complete with links to journal articles, relevant websites and blogs. This is essential reading for your studies in criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.

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