Crime, Media and Culture

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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