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Chapter 8

References from the book:

Cohen, S. (2002) Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers (3rd edn). London: Routledge.
The book that launched a thousand studies, this classic text presents the original development of ‘moral panic’—one of the most widely used (and often misused) concepts in the sociology of crime and social control.

Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. London: Sage.
This international journal provides a forum for the increasing number of researchers working at the interface between criminology, media studies, and cultural studies. In addition to publishing more conventional scholarly articles, CMC includes photographic essays, international research think-pieces, and reviews of relevant crime-media material.

Greer, C. (2008) Crime and Media: A Reader. London: Routledge.
This book provides the only comprehensive collection of key and classic readings on crime and media in one volume, covering the key areas of: Understanding Media; Researching Media; Crime, Newsworthiness and
News; Crime, Entertainment and Creativity; Effects, Influence and Moral Panics; and Cybercrime, Surveillance and Social Control.

Jewkes, Y. (2005) Media and Crime, London: Sage.
This highly accessible textbook offers a book length analysis of many of the issues discussed in the chapter.

Mason, P. (ed) (2003) Criminal Visions: Representations of Crime and Justice. Cullompton: Willan.
This edited collection presents a series of insightful analyses exploring the relationship between crime, control, and a wide range of media forms in late modernity.

Further references:

For a more condensed review, Robert Reiner’s ‘Media Made Criminality: The Representation of Crime in the Mass Media’, in Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner’s (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) is excellent. The most useful edited collections include Stanley Cohen and Jock Young’s (eds.) The Manufacture of News: The Social Construction of Crime and Deviance, (revised edition, London: Constable, 1981) and, more recently, David Kidd-Hewitt and Richard Osborne’s (eds.) Crime and the Media: The Post-Modern Spectacle (London: Pluto Press, 1995), Richard Ericson’s (ed.) Crime and the Media (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995) and Paul Mason’s (ed.) Criminal Visions: Representations of Crime and Justice, (Cullompton: Willan, 2003). These books present accessible explorations of a comprehensive range of media-crime issues, written by key scholars in the field. Also, keep an eye on Criminal Justice Matters (London: CCJS), an extremely useful journal which should be compulsory reading on all introductory criminology courses. Criminal Justice Matters (CJM) regularly features short articles on media-related issues written by key figures, and has a number of special editions specifically on crime and the media. Finally, for an in depth analysis of the production of media and its interaction with business and government, see Herman and Chomsky’s (1989) ‘A Propaganda model’, an excellent analysis of the production of news media and an insight into the use and impact of mass media. Likewise, see Nick Davies (2008) ‘Flat Earth News’ for an accessible and stimulating analysis of ‘falsehood, distortion and propaganda’ in the mass media.