Crime, media, and reality
Subtitle: examining mixed messages about crime and justice in popular media
By: Venessa Garcia and Samantha G. Arkerson
Contributors: Arkerson, Samantha G., author
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781442260818
Subjects: Mass media and criminal justice; Crime on television; Crime in mass media; Crime and the press; Mass media and crime
Description: Garcia and Arkerson look at the influence of crime news and true crime television series that prevent the public from distinguishing pure entertainment from the realities of crime and justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Introduction; title: Chapter 2: News Media, Social Media, and Crime Waves; title: Chapter 3: Framing and Narrating Crime in the News; title: Chapter 4: Crime in the Movies; title: Chapter 5: Crime Television; title: Chapter 6: Policing Crime; title: Chapter 7: Courtrooms and Lawyers in the Media; title: Chapter 8: Prison in the Media; title: Chapter 9: Conclusion: Media's Social Construction of Crime and Justice; title: Appendix A: Crime Movies Cited with Release Dates; title: Appendix B: Television Shows Cited with Air Dates.