Media and Crime

4. Revised Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5264-6408-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 232 mm

Reihe: Key Approaches to Criminology

How is crime constructed, represented and contested in contemporary media, and how can we make sense of this complex relationship? This book provides a clear, critically engaged answer, moving beyond description to empower students to analyse the power, influence and consequences of these representations.

This fourth edition remains the go-to resource for students and includes: Dedicated chapters covering topics including law and order politics, the crime entertainment industry, and media constructions of criminalisation and victimisation; An exploration of changes to the media, journalistic practices, and audience engagement and their impact on how we understand crime and the media; Updated content examining the relationship between the media and criminal justice institutions; Brand new resources and curated resources for instructors, including podcasts, videos, and other contemporary materials, plus lecture slide templates for a rich multimedia learning experience.

Much loved and now fully updated, this fourth edition remains essential reading for undergraduate students of criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jewkes, Yvonne

McGovern, Alyce

Phillips, Nickie D.

Über Autor(innen)

Jewkes, Yvonne
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.