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Chapter 11

Richard Sparks's Television and the Drama of Crime (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992) is a theoretically sophisticated critique of content analyses of crime fiction, and their relationship to fear of crime. Illuminating recent studies of the production of crime news are the trilogy by R. Ericson, P. Baranek, and J. Chan, Visualising Deviance, Negotiating Control, and Representing Order (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1987, 1989, 1991 respectively); P. Schlesinger and H. Tumber's Reporting Crime (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); and C.Greer, Sex Crime and the Media (Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2004). Useful reviews of the research on media effects can be found in: S. Livingstone, 'On the Continuing Problem of Media Effects', in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds), Mass Media and Society (London: Arnold, 1996); D. Howitt, Crime, The Media and the Law (London: Wiley, 1998); and from a fundamentally critical perspective, M. Barker and J. Petley (eds), Ill Effects, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 2001). Excellent recent texts on crime and media are S. Brown, Crime and Law in Media Culture (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003) and Y. Jewkes, Media and Crime (London: Sage, 2004). Chapters offering excellent brief reviews of the literature are: K. Beckett and T. Sasson, The Politics of Injustice (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Pine Forge, 2000), chs 5, 6; E. Carrabine, P. Iganski, M. Lee, K. Plummer, and N. South, Criminology (London: Routledge, 2004), ch. 18; C. Greer 'Crime and Media' in C. Hale, K. Hayward, A. Wahidin, and E. Wincup (eds), Criminology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Useful edited volumes offering a rich diversity of research papers on media and crime are: R. Ericson (ed.), Crime and the Media (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995); D. Kidd-Hewitt and R. Osborne (eds), Crime and the Media: The Post-Modern Spectacle (London: Pluto, 1996); P. Mason (ed.), Criminal Visions (Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2003). Valuable specialist journals are Crime, Media, Culture (London: Sage) and Journal of Crime, Conflict and Media Culture (www.jc2m.co.uk).