Crime and the media
Subtitle: headlines versus reality
By: Roslyn Muraskin, Shelly Feuer Domash.
Contributors: Domash, Shelly Feuer.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Crime in mass media.; Crime and the press -- United States -- Case studies.; Mass media and criminal justice -- United States -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview : crime and the media : headlines versus reality; title: What about the media?; title: The relationship of crime reporting to the fear of crime; title: Crimes and reactions; title: The Salem witchcraft trials; title: The Scopes Monkey Trial,1925; title: The Menedez brothers, 1989; title: Colin Ferguson, 1993; title: The O.J. Simpson case, 1994; title: JonBenet Ramsey, 1996; title: Kobe Bryant, 2003; title: Daniel Pelosi, 2001; title: Elizabeth Ann Smart, 2002; title: Scott Peterson, 2002; title: Michael Jackson, 2004; title: Female offenders depicted by the media; title: A star is formed : media construction of the female criminal; title: Martha Stewart : this case is about lying; title: Can the mass media do good?; title: If a story isn't depicted by the media it doesn't exist.