Constructing danger
Subtitle: emotions and the mis/representation of crime in the news
By: Chris McCormick
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Fernwood Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Halifax, N.S
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781552663820; 9781552663875
Subjects: Crime and the press; Crime in mass media; Journalism; Objectivity; Criminalité et presse; Criminalité dans les médias; Presse; Objectivité
Description: Each chapter includes a contributed talk--by Sharon Fraser, Anne Derrick, Debi Forsyth-Smith, Gary Kinsman, Eric Smith, Joy Mannette, Paul MacDonald, Tony Thomson, Darrel Pink, and Deborah Woolway--as well as sections on reading and analyzing the news, and sample studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 232-238.
Table of contents: title: A string of stranger sexual assaults: the construction of an orthodox account of rape; title: Women who work as prostitutes: the sex trade and trading in labels; title: Domestic terrorism: the news as an incomplete record of violence against women; title: The Mount Cashel orphanage inquiry: the inscription of child abuse; title: AIDS fiends and high-risk groups: misrepresenting and signifying a disease; title: The Halifax race riot: extralocality and racism in the news; title: Crime rates and crime fear: portraying crime as out of control; title: Crime stoppers and the police: the ideological construction of community; title: Lawyers and serial killers: the press and sensationalism; title: The Westray mine explosion: covering a disaster and a failed inquiry.