Constructing crime
Subtitle: perspectives on making news and social problems
By: Gary W. Potter, Victor E. Kappeler, [editors].
Contributors: Kappeler, Victor E.; Potter, Gary W.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781577664468
Subjects: Crime and the press -- United States; Crime -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making news. Enter moral panics / Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yahuda; title: Media constructions of crime / Vincent F. Sacco; title: Crime waves as ideology / Mark Fishman; title: Fear and loathing on reality television : an analysis of America's most wanted and Unsolved mysteries / Gray Cavender & Lisa Bond-Maupin; title: State managers, intellectuals, and the media : a content analysis of ideology in experts' quotes in feature newspaper articles on crime / Michael Welch, Melissa Fenwick, & Meredith Roberts.  Constructing crime problems. The gang initiation rite as a motif in contemporary crime discourse / Joel Best & Mary M. Hutchinson; title: The presentation of drugs in the news media : the news sources involved in the construction of social problems / Steven Chermak; title: The social construction of an alcohol problems : the case of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and social control in the 1980s / Craig Reinarman; title: Coverage of domestic violence fatalities by newspapers in Washington State / Cathy Ferrand Bullock & Jason Cubert; title: The media construction of stalking stereotypes / Brian H. Spitzberg & Michelle Cadiz; title: The role of television news in the construction of school violence as a "moral panic" / Donna Killingbeck; title: Constructing "crime" : media coverage of individual and organizational wrongdoing / William S. Lofquist; title: "Road warriors" on "hair-trigger highways" : cultural resources and the media's construction of the 1987 freeway shootings problem / Joel Best.  Effects of constructing crime. Crime, news and fear of crime : toward an identification of audience effects / Ted Chiricos, Sarah Eschholz, & Marc Gertz; title: Perceived fears : the reporting patterns of juvenile homicide in Chicago newspapers / John G. Boulahanis & Martha J. Heltsley; title: "All the news that's fit to print" : a content analysis of the correctional debate in the New York Times / Michael Welch, Lisa Weber & Walter Edwards; title: Dominant ideology and drugs in the media / Craig Reinarman & Ceres Duskin; title: Breaking news : how local TV news and real; title: world conditions affect fear of crime / Ronald Weitzer & Charis E. Kubrin.