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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ray Surette |
| ISBN: | 9781285459059 1285459059 |
| OCLC Number: | 882216889 |
| Description: | xxii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 1. Crime, Justice, and Media -- The mediated world of crime and justice -- blurring of fact, fiction, and the media -- a brief history of crime-and-justice media -- Print media -- Sound media -- Visual media -- New media -- Entertainment -- Advertising -- News -- Infotainment -- Crime and justice as a mediated experience -- 2. Social constructionism -- Sources of social knowledge -- Experienced reality -- Symbolic reality -- Socially constructed reality -- The social construction process and the media -- Concepts of social constructionism - claims makers and claims -- frames -- narratives -- symbolic crimes -- ownership -- Social construction of road rage -- Reconstruction of driving under the influence -- Competing constructions of the arrest of Rodney King -- 3. Images of Crime and criminality -- Criminals -- Predatory criminality -- Crime victims -- Crimes -- White-collar crime -- Criminological theories and the media explanations of crime -- criminality in the media -- 4. Criminogenic Media -- The Media as a cause of crime -- violent media and aggression -- what is the effect of video games on aggression -- media and criminal behavior -- copycat crime -- media-oriented terrorism -- criminogenic infotainment -- 5. Crime fighters -- Law enforcement: a house divided -- Media constructs of professional soldiers in the war on crime -- Lampooned police -- G-men and police procedural -- Cops -- Police as infotainment -- The CSI effect, forensic science and solving crimes -- police and the media -- Media constructs of citizen soldiers in the war on crime -- Private investigators -- Private citizens -- Professional versus citizen crime fighters -- 6. The courts -- Media, infotainment and the courts -- Courts, attorneys, and evidence -- Crime-fighting attorneys -- Female attorneys -- Media trials -- Merging judicial news with entertainment -- Live television in courtrooms -- Pretrial publicity, judicial controls, and access -- Judicial mechanisms to deal with pretrial publicity -- Media access to government information -- reporters' privilege and shield laws -- The courts as Twenty-First-Century entertainment -- 7. Corrections -- historical perspective -- Sources of correctional knowledge -- Prison films -- Correctional television and infotainment -- Corrections in the news -- Corrections portraits and stereotypes -- Prisoners -- Correctional institutions -- Correctional officers -- 8. Crime control -- Media and crime control -- Public Service Announcements -- Victimization-reduction ads -- Citizen-cooperation ads -- Case processing using media technology -- Judicial System use -- Law Enforcement use -- Surveillance -- history and issues -- benefits and concerns of increased surveillance -- Balancing police surveillance and public safety -- 1984: an icon before its time -- 9. The media and criminal justice policy -- Media crime-and-justice tenets -- The Backwards Law -- the crime-and-justice environment in the media -- media dynamic of Immanent justice -- Criminal justice policy and media research -- Crime on the Public Agenda -- Beliefs and attitudes about crime -- Crime-and-justice policies -- The social construction of crime-and-justice policy -- 10. New Media crime and justice -- new media criminality and victimization -- new media and performance crime -- new media and copycat crime -- new media and criminal victimization -- new media and law enforcement -- new media and the courts -- new media and corrections -- new media and the future of crime and justice -- 11. Media and crime and justice in the twenty-first century -- Crime-and-justice media messages -- Two postulates of media and crime and justice -- Expanded public access to criminal justice procedures -- Mediated reality -- The future of crime-and-justice reality -- Participatory Spectacles -- Self-Surveillance -- Mediated criminal justice. |
| Responsibility: | Ray Surette. |
Abstract:
Surveys the interplay between contemporary media and the criminal justice system, illustrating how people use media-provided knowledge to construct a picture of the world and then act on that
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