Media and Crime
- Yvonne Jewkes - University of Bath, UK
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.
In Media and Crime one of the field’s very best scholars offers a critical panorama of crime and media, from prison films to surveillance culture and cybercrime. As intellectually sophisticated as it is narratively engaging, Yvonne Jewkes’ Media and Crime is a masterful must-read.
Yvonne Jewkes' Media & Crime has established itself as the key text in this important area of criminology. This new edition incorporates pivotal developments in a rapidly transforming media landscape, and will prove an invaluable resource for criminology students and researchers alike.
Crucial addition to the reading list for this unit.
This book is a great resource for both research and teaching.
Good book. more useful in 2016, when a Media and Crime module becomes available here.
Help with the criteria of the unit being studied and gives and excellent overview of crime as portrayed in 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.
This remains the 'go to' text for students with an interest in how the media shapes crime
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.
A clear & concise insight into the Media impact on crime and the fear of crime in the UK
Sample Materials & Chapters
SAGE Investigates Yvonne Jewkes
Media and Crime: Crime Films and Prison Films
