Yvonne Jewkes

Media and Crime

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Produktbeschreibung

Fully updated with new crime statistics, case studies â including Jimmy Savile, the murder of Lee Rigby, and Wikileaks â and a student website, this bestselling text introduces students to this exciting area and encourages them to think critically about key issues

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Produktdetails

• Key Approaches to Criminology
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9781446272527
• ISBN-10: 1446272524
• Artikelnr.: 41749325

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has been carrying out prison research-much of it ethnography-for over 20 years and has spent the last decade researching and writing about prison architecture and design and their potential to rehabilitate. She has recently held two Economic and Social Research Council grants to study these topics and has worked as a consultant to prison architects and senior prison service personnel around the world. She has published extensively on various aspects of prisons and imprisonment, including (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett) The Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed., 2016, Routledge). With Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, she is the Founding Editor of the new SAGE journal Incarceration.    

Inhaltsangabe

Theorizing Media and Crime The Construction of Crime News Media and Moral Panics Media Constructions of Children:
Evil Monsters
and
Tragic Victims
Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women Police, Offenders and Victims in the Media Crime Films and Prison Films Crime and the Surveillance Culture The Role of the Internet in Crime and Deviance (Re)Conceptualizing the Relationship between Media and Crime

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Theorizing Media and Crime
The Construction of Crime News
Media and Moral Panics
Media Constructions of Children: 'Evil Monsters' and 'Tragic Victims'
Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women
Police, Offenders and Victims in the Media
Crime Films and Prison Films
Crime and the Surveillance Culture
The Role of the Internet in Crime and Deviance
(Re)Conceptualizing the Relationship between Media and Crime

Rezensionen

In Media and Crime one of the field s very best scholars offers a critical panorama of crime and media, from prison films to surveillance culture and cybercrime. As intellectually sophisticated as it is narratively engaging, Yvonne Jewkes Media and Crime is a masterful must-read.
Professor Jeff Ferrell