Title:
Crime, media, and reality : examining mixed messages about crime and justice in popular media / Venessa Garcia and Samantha G. Arkerson.
Author:
Garcia, Venessa, author.
Arkerson, Samantha G., 1985- author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
©2018.
Call Number:
P96.C74 G373 2018
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9781442260818
9781442260825
Physical Description:
ix, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: News Media, Social Media, and Crime Waves -- Chapter 3: Framing and Narrating Crime in the News -- Chapter 4: Crime in the Movies -- Chapter 5: Crime Television -- Chapter 6: Policing Crime -- Chapter 7: Courtrooms and Lawyers in the Media -- Chapter 8: Prison in the Media -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Media's Social Construction of Crime and Justice -- Appendix A: Crime Movies Cited with Release Dates -- Appendix B: Television Shows Cited with Air Dates.
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