Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice

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Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice critically examines the media to identify how crime and criminal justice are treated in the news, entertainment, and infotainment media. The book sheds light on important realities of crime and criminal justice and corrects major misconceptions created by coverage of crime and criminal justice in the media. While there are other texts on the market focused on the impact of mass media on criminal justice, this text is the only one that starts with the issue of corporate ownership of the mass media as a problem for gaining an accurate understanding of the realities of crime and criminal justice. Unique among media books, the author presents basic information about the media in the introductory chapters and then applies this information to specific issues of crime and criminal justice in the rest of the book, thereby focusing on the same issues and themes throughout. The book addresses media coverage of law-making and crime, policing, courts, and corrections, as well as how the media both help and hinder effective crime control and crime prevention efforts. The author maintains a blog to allow readers to apply knowledge from the book to real-world media stories, and to interact with the author: mediacriminaljustice.blogspot.com PowerPoint slides are available to professors upon adoption of this book. Download sample slides from the full 159-slide presentation here. If you have adopted the book for a course, contact [email protected] to request the PowerPoint slides.

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  Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice

  • 2018-07
  • 438 pages
  • Paperback
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