This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research.
"This book critically examines the media to identify how crime and criminal justice are treated in the news, entertainment, and infotainment media.
Through examining the predictors of criminologists appearing in news media, the research presented in this book demonstrates that newsmaking practices within criminology are not reflective of equal access, interest, or opportunity.
Are these women simply victims of patriarchal culture, or can their crimes be seen as an outrage against it? This collection of essays addresses these issues and looks at our enduring fascination with murder in literature and film.
While there are other texts on the market focused on the impact of mass media on criminal justice, this text is the only one that starts with the issue of corporate ownership of the mass media as a problem for gaining an accurate ...
This book is a useful text for courses on media ethics, crime and public policy, political science, terrorism studies, and communication studies.
The text, its test questions, discussion sessions, and writing assignments are designed to be used in both traditional and online classrooms.
"De 1984 à 1992, Michael Connelly a tenu la chronique judiciaire du South Florida Sun-Sentinel et du Los Angeles Times.