Media and Crime
Key Approaches to Criminology
This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime.
Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics, and media and the police to 'reality' crime shows, surveillance and social control.
This third edition:
- Explores innovations in technology and forms of reporting, including citizen journalism.
- Examines the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites.
- Features chapters dedicated to the issues around cybercrime and crime film, along with new content on terrorism and the media.
- Shows you how to research media and crime.
- Includes discussion questions, further reading and a glossary.
- Now features a companion website, complete with links to journal articles, relevant websites and blogs.
This is essential reading for your studies in criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.
The Key Approaches to Criminology series celebrates the removal of traditional barriers between disciplines and, specifically, reflects criminology’s interdisciplinary nature and focus. It brings together some of the leading scholars working at the intersections of criminology and related subjects. Each book in the series helps readers to make intellectual connections between criminology and other discourses, and to understand the importance of studying crime and criminal justice within the context of broader debates.
The series is intended to have appeal across the entire range of undergraduate and postgraduate studies and beyond, comprising books which offer introductions to the fields as well as advancing ideas and knowledge in their subject areas.
Supplements
Free resources on the companion website:
- Free access to selected further readings in SAGE journals
- Links to websites, YouTube videos, blogs and reports
- PowerPoint Slides to accompany each chapter
I have drawn on Jewkes in previous teaching so it is good to have this up-to-date source.
Undergraduate students working on their dissertations find this an accessible and useful text.
This book is a great resource for both research and teaching.
An impressive update on the previous edition with a range of additional material added.
Still essential reading for any module relating to crime and the media.
Though the issue of media and crime is gaining incremental research interest within the criminological, sociological, and social psychological literature, there are currently few academic texts that are comprehensive and in a text-book format relating to this subject matter. I applaud Professor Jewkes for researching and writing this timely and very useful book.
All the team use Yvonne Jewkes book and we are all glad to receive new editions. it is esential reading for my colleagues crime and the media module and we recommend it to our LRC and students as valuable reading throughout the course
Regards
Richard
This Third Edition now includes:
- Exploration of innovations in technology and forms of reporting, including citizen journalism.
- Examination the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites.
- Chapters dedicated to the issues around cybercrime and crime film, along with new content on terrorism and the media.
- Guidance on researching media and crime.
- A brand new companion website with links to journal articles, relevant websites and blogs.
Sample Materials & Chapters
SAGE Investigates Yvonne Jewkes
Media and Crime: Crime Films and Prison Films
