Crime, Media and Culture

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of boxes
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
	Theorizing the nature, extent and role of media in society
	Box 1.1 Exploring the crime­media nexus: key questions
	Box 1.2 The War of the Worlds effect
	Researching crime­media content
	Newsworthiness and news values
	Box 1.3 Newsworthiness and crime news values
	Box 1.4 A summary of media representations of crime
	Crime, media and culture
	Suggested further reading
2 Studying crime and culture
	Introduction
	Cultural criminology
	Theoretical foundations of cultural criminology
	Box 2.1 Fighting off boredom: cultural criminology and Fight Club
	Box 2.2 The thrill of the chase: joyriding as ‘edgework’
	Methodologies of cultural criminology: ethnography, fieldwork and criminological verstehen
	Box 2.3 Ecstasy at the edge of white­collar crime
	Constructions upwards­downwards, loops and spirals
	Visual criminology
	Narrative criminology
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
3 Moral panics, folk devils and trial by media
	Introduction
	Moral panics and folk devils
	Box 3.1 Deviancy amplification
	Moral panic over asylum seekers in Australia
	Extending moral panic theory
	Trial by media
	Box 3.2 Key features of media trials
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
4 Crime fear and the media
	Introduction
	Cultivation analysis and its critics
	Box 4.1 Bowling for Columbine – culture of fear in America
	Researching crime fear
	Box 4.2 Fear of crime surveys
	Fear­victim paradox
	Box 4.3 Fear of crime feedback loop
	Productivity of crime fear: the case of anti­social behavior
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
5 Law, crime and popular culture
	Introduction
	Hard­boiled detectives and film noir
	Box 5.1 Female hard­boiled detectives
	Nordic noir
	Cops, lawyers and courtrooms
	Box 5.2 Law’s fictive voice
	Television judges
	Crime Scene Investigation and the CSI effect
	Box 5.3 Educative effects of CSI
	Box 5.4 Psychology of the CSI effect
	Life on Mars – a contemporary cop show?
	Reversing cop­criminal stereotypes in The Wire
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
6 Bad girls and evil little monsters
	Introduction
	Media representations of female criminality as ‘backlash journalism’
	Monstrous visions: the case of Maxine Carr
	Box 6.1 Media trial effects
	Lindy Chamberlain’s media trial
	Box 6.2 Deviant divas: Chamberlain and Corby compared
	Amanda Knox: twenty­first­century femme fatale
	Press reactions to female killers in England and Finland
	When children kill children: comparing the Bulger and Redergård cases
	Box 6.3 Offending imagery, ethics and justice
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
7 Serial killers
	Introduction
	Natural born serial killers?
	Modern serial killers
	Box 7.1 Who was Trevor Joseph Hardy?
	Box 7.2 Taxi Driver – a ‘visionary’ killer
	Box 7.3 Dexter – portrait of an exceptionally ‘normal’ serial killer
	Serial killing and the postmodern self
	Box 7.4 The puzzle of Harold Shipman
	Serial killing and consumption
	Serial killers as postmodern celebrities/cultural monsters
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
8 Surveillance, new media and protest policing
	Introduction
	Panoptic observation and the dispersal of crime control
	The surveillant assemblage
	Data doubles
	Box 8.1 The disappearance of disappearance
	Synopticism and counterveillance
	Box 8.2 CCTV camera operators: rules of engagement
	Resisting surveillance: against speed cameras
	Video activism as counter­surveillance
	Intelligent control: developments in protest and public order policing
	Box 8.3 APEC 2007: policing protest Sydney style
	Citizen journalism and policing’s new visibility
	Criminalizing dissent
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
9 Organized crime, terrorism and high crimes of state
	Introduction
	Tony Soprano – postmodern godfather
	Strictly business? Legitimate/illicit symbiosis
	Box 9.1 Media representations of Russian organized crime
	Organized crime­terrorism nexus
	Box 9.2 Allying critical terrorism studies and cultural criminology
	High crimes, misdemeanors and calamitous failures at Abu Ghraib
	Conclusion
	Suggested further reading
10 Conclusion
	Multiple media effects
	Symbiosis, blurring and criminogenic media
References
Index