Crime, Justice and the Media: Edition 3
About this ebook
The third edition of Crime, Justice and the Media focuses on the media representation of a range of different areas of crime and criminal justice, including:
- new media technology, e.g. social network sites;
- moral panics over specific crimes and criminals, e.g. youth crime, cybercrime, paedophilia;
- media portrayal of victims of crime and criminals;
- how the media represent criminal justice agencies, e.g. the police and prison service.
This book offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive analysis of theoretical thinking on the relationship between the media, crime and criminal justice and a detailed examination of how crime, criminals and others involved in the criminal justice process are portrayed by the media. With exercises, questions and further reading in every chapter, this book encourages students to engage with and respond to the material presented, thereby developing a deeper understanding of the links between the media and criminality.
About the author
Ian Marsh is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool Hope University. His recent publications include Crime and Criminal Justice (with Gaynor Melville, Keith Morgan, Gareth Norris and John Cochrane – Routledge 2011) and Sociology: Making Sense of Society (fifth edition, Pearson 2013).
Gaynor Melville was Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool Hope University. Her publications include Crime and Criminal Justice (with Ian Marsh, Keith Morgan, Gareth Norris and John Cochrane – Routledge 2011) and Criminal Justice: An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice (with Ian Marsh and John Cochrane – Routledge 2004).
