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Chapter 8

Links from the book:

www.lexisnexis.com
LexisNexis is a useful resource for conducting online searches of news and other print media from around the world. As noted in this chapter, however, beware that data are returned structure, style, and image free. Use LexisNexis to locate the coverage, then go get the original copy to research it!

www.spiked-online.com
Spiked is an independent online publication which offers an alternative and always critical take on the news stories of the day. Its self-stated priorities are liberty, enlightenment, experimentation, and excellence.

www.theory.org.uk
Theory.org.uk is a fun and accessible website maintained by David Gauntlett, which includes information on media effects, key social and cultural theorists, and plenty of links to other useful media-oriented sites.

www.ccms-infobase.com
The Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Infobase contains a wide range of salient links, definitions, and issues for debate—pitched at an introductory undergraduate level—which are easy to navigate.

Further links of interest:

CRIMEINFO:
www.crimeinfo.org.uk/crimeandjustice/index.jsp
Has a useful section on crime and the media and a useful links section.

Crime, Criminal Justice and the Media:
www.groombridges.freeserve.co.uk/Crime,%20Criminal%20Justice%20and%20Media.htm
Includes material on CCTV and Gender, CCTV and Human Rights and CCTV as Cultural Phenomena, as well as work on sexuality and criminology.

Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture:
www.jc2m.co.uk/
A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the critical nexus of media culture, criminal justice and conflict.

Dr. Cecil Greek, Florida State University:
www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/default.htm
Dr. Cecil Greek of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, has made available the notes for his entire graduate lecture course on 'Crime and Media', containing a wealth of useful material and references it includes an immensely valuable links page: www.criminology.fsu.edu/cj.html

'Picturing Justice: The On-Line Journal of Law and Popular Culture':
www.usfca.edu/pj/ from the University of San Francisco and the 'Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture': www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/ from the State University of New York, Albany are two very valuable online journals looking at crime and media.

'Law in Popular Culture Collection':
www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/
From the University of Texas is a related online resource.

Two interesting British sites are:
www.thesweeney.com, and www.met.police.uk

Picturing Justice: The On-Line Journal of Law and Popular Culture:
www.usfca.edu/pj/
From the University of San Francisco is a useful online journal examining the relationship between crime and the media.

Law in Popular Culture Collection :
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/
From the University of Texas.