Table of Contents

Introduction
Theorizing Media and Crime
Media ′Effects′
Strain Theory and Anomie
Marxism, Critical Criminology and the ′Dominant Ideology′ Approach
Pluralism, Competition and Ideological Struggle
Realism and Reception Analysis
Late-Modernity and Postmodernism
Cultural Criminology
The Construction of Crime News
News Values for a New Millennium
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann: A Newsworthy Story par Excellence
News Production and Consumption in a Digital Global Marketplace: The Rise of the Citizen Journalist
News Values and Crime News Production: Some Concluding Thoughts
Media and Moral Panics
The Background to the Moral Panic Model
Problems with the Moral Panic Model
The Longevity and Legacy of the Moral Panic Model: Some Concluding Thoughts
Media Constructions of Children: ′Evil Monsters′ and ′Tragic Victims′
1993 - Children as ′Evil Monsters′
1996 - Children as ′Tragic Victims′
Guilt, Collusion and Voyeurism
Moral Panics and the Revival of ′Community′: Some Concluding Thoughts
Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Feminist Perspectives
Honourable Fathers Vs. Monstrous Mothers: Some Concluding Thoughts
Police, Offenders and Victims in the Media
The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
The Role of the Police
Crimewatch UK
Crimewatching Crime: Some Concluding Thoughts
Crime Films and Prison Films
The Appeal of Crime Films
The Crime Film: Masculinity, Autonomy, the City
The ′Prison Film′
The Documentary
The Remake
Discussion
Concluding Thoughts
Crime and the Surveillance Culture
Panopticism
The Surveillant Assemblage
From the Panopticon to Surveillant Assemblage and Back Again
′Big Brother′ Or ′Brave New World′?: Some Concluding Thoughts
The Role of the Internet in Crime and Deviance
Redefining Deviance And Democratization: Developing Nations and the Case of China
′Ordinary′ Cybercrimes
Childhood, Cyberspace and Social Retreat
Concluding Thoughts
(Re)-Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media and Crime
Doing Media-Crime Research
Stigmatization, Sentimentalization and Sanctification: The ′Othering′ of Victims And Offenders

About the Author

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.




 

 

Reviews

′Yvonne Jewkes′ Media and Crime is a remarkable book-a book remarkable for its critical, comprehensive engagement with the most important of contemporary issues. As one of the top scholars in her field, Jewkes provides a panoramic view across the full sweep of media and crime, in all their many forms and entanglements, from television crime coverage to internet search engines and situations of surveillance. Taking the reader with her across this complex cultural terrain, she reveals something else as well: the essential insights into contemporary politics, power, and conflict that are to be found where crime and media collide. In this light Media and Crime becomes required reading not only for students and scholars of crime and media, but for anyone interested in understanding the dangerous dynamics of the late modern world′ - Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, US, and University of Kent, UK ′This second edition of Jewkes′ treatise Media and Crime is the most comprehensive volume to date on the major issues involved. Analytically incisive and international as well as national in orientation, it is a must for everyone preoccupied with media and crime, and for all students engaged in the area′ - Thomas Mathiesen, Professor of Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway ′The first edition set the standard for textbooks on crime and media. This revised edition has raised the bar. Erudite, authoritative, interdisciplinary and always engaging, Yvonne Jewkes′ Media and Crime transports students to a genuinely interesting place and makes other textbooks seem rather dull in comparison. It looks set to remain a classroom favourite for some time to come′ - Chris Greer, City University, UK.

′Yvonne Jewkes′ Media and Crime is a remarkable book-a book remarkable for its critical, comprehensive engagement with the most important of contemporary issues. As one of the top scholars in her field, Jewkes provides a panoramic view across the full sweep of media and crime, in all their many forms and entanglements, from television crime coverage to internet search engines and situations of surveillance. Taking the reader with her across this complex cultural terrain, she reveals something else as well: the essential insights into contemporary politics, power, and conflict that are to be found where crime and media collide. In this light Media and Crime becomes required reading not only for students and scholars of crime and media, but for anyone interested in understanding the dangerous dynamics of the late modern world′ - Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, US, and University of Kent, UK ′This second edition of Jewkes′ treatise Media and Crime is the most comprehensive volume to date on the major issues involved. Analytically incisive and international as well as national in orientation, it is a must for everyone preoccupied with media and crime, and for all students engaged in the area′ - Thomas Mathiesen, Professor of Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway ′The first edition set the standard for textbooks on crime and media. This revised edition has raised the bar. Erudite, authoritative, interdisciplinary and always engaging, Yvonne Jewkes′ Media and Crime transports students to a genuinely interesting place and makes other textbooks seem rather dull in comparison. It looks set to remain a classroom favourite for some time to come′ - Chris Greer, City University, UK.
*Jeff Ferrell*