Criminal visions : media representations of crime and justice /
Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few publications address this subject head on. This book...
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| Language: | English |
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Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Ore. :
Willan,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : visions of crime and justice / Paul Mason
- From law and order to lynch mobs : crime news since the Second World War / Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen
- Video violence : how far can you go? / Julian Petley
- 'Signal crimes' : detective work, mass media and constructing collective memory / Martin Innes
- Masculinity, morality and action : Michael Mann and the heist movie / Jonathan Rayner
- Sex crime and the media : press representations in Northern Ireland / Chris Greer
- Organized crime : Mafia myths in film and television / George S. Larke
- Political violence, Irish Republicanism and the British media : semantics, symbiosis and the state / Mark Hayes
- Mass media/mass murder : serial killer cinema and the modern violated body / Ian Conrich
- Photo stories and family albums : imaging criminals and victims on Crimewatch UK / Deborah Jermyn
- Media representations of visual surveillance / Michael McCahill
- Completing the 'half-formed picture'? Media images of policing / Rob C. Mawby
- Film lawyers : above and beyond the law / Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn
- British justice : not suitable for public viewing? / Daniel Stepniak
- The screen machine : cinematic representations of prison / Paul Mason.
