With the ever-increasing role of media in both reporting crime and shaping it into infotainment, the importance of the interplay between contemporary media and the criminal justice system is greater today than ever before. Author Ray Surette comprehensively surveys this interplay while emphasizing that people use media-provided knowledge to construct a picture of the world, and then act based on this constructed reality.
Table of Contents
Foreword (xiii) Preface (xv)
1. Predators, Pictures and Policy (1) Media and Criminal Justice: A Forced Marriage (1) The Blurring of Fact and Fiction (4) A Brief History of Crime-and-Justice Media (5) – Print Media (6) – Sound Media (10) – Visual Media (11) – New Media (13) Types of Content (15) – Entertainment (15) – Advertising (16) – News (16) – Infotainment (19) Crime and Justice as a Mediated Experience (24) Chapter Summary (27) Writing Assignments (28) Suggested Readings (28)
2. Social Constructionism (29) The Social Construction of Crime and Justice (29) The Sources of Social Knowledge (30) – Experienced Reality (31) – Symbolic Reality (31) – Socially Constructed Reality (32) – The Social Construction Process and the Media (32) The Concepts of Social Constructionism (34) – Claims Makers and Claims (34) – Frames (37) – Narratives (41) – Symbolic Crimes (42) – Ownership (43) The Social Construction Process in Action (44) – Social Construction of Road Rage (45) – Reconstruction of Driving Under the Influence (45) – Competing Constructions of the Arrest of Rodney King (46) Social Constructionism and Crime and Justice (48) Chapter Summary (50) Writing Assignments (50) Suggested Readings (51)
3. Crime and Criminality (52) Criminals, Crimes, and Criminality (52) – Criminals (53) – Predatory Criminality (54) – Crime Victims (55) – Crimes (57) – White-Collar Crime (58) – Criminological Theories and the Media (61) – Criminality in Today’s Media (64) Criminogenic Media (66) – Violent Media and Aggression (67) – Media and Criminal Behavior (69) – Copycat Crime (70) – Media-Oriented Terrorism (77) Criminogenic Infotainment (79) Chapter Summary (81) Writing Assignments (82) Suggested Readings (82)
4. Crime Fighters (84) Law Enforcement: A House Divided (84) Media Constructs of Professional Soldiers in the War on Crime (86) – Lampooned Police (86) – G-Men and Police Procedural (87) – Cops (90) – Police as Infotainment: “Who you gonna call?” (92) – Dusting for Saliva: The CSI Effect, Forensic Science, and Juror Expectations (95) – Police and the Media (97) Media Constructs of Citizen Soldiers in the War on Crime (99) – Private Investigators (99) – Private Citizens (99) Professional Versus Citizen Crime Fighters (101) Chapter Summary (103) Writing Assignments (104) Suggested Readings (104)
5. The Courts (105) Media, Infotainment, and The Courts (105) Courts, Attorneys, and Evidence (106) – Crime-Fighting Attorneys (107) – Female Attorneys (108) Media Trials (109) – Media Trial Effects (110) – Merging Judicial News with Entertainment (114) – Live Television in Courtrooms (117) Pretrial Publicity, Judicial Controls, and Access (119) – Pretrial Publicity (119) – Judicial Mechanisms to Deal with Pretrial Publicity (121) – Media Access to Government Information (125) – Reporters’ Privilege and Shield Laws (125) The Courts as Twenty-First-Century Entertainment (126) Chapter Summary (130) Writing Assignments (131) Suggested Readings (131)
6. Corrections (132) Historical Perspective (132) Sources of Correctional Knowledge (135) – Prison Films (135) – Correctional Television and Infotainment (138) – Corrections in the News (140) Corrections Portraits and Stereotypes (148) – Prisoners (149) – Correctional Institutions (150) – Correctional Officers (150) The Primitive “Lost World” of Corrections (151) Chapter Summary (153) Writing Assignments (153) Suggested Readings (154)
7. Crime Control (155) Media and Crime Control (155) – Public Service Announcements Join the War on Crime (156) – Victimization-reduction Ads (159) – Citizen-cooperation Ads (160) Case Processing Using Media Technology (163) – Judicial System Use (163) – Law Enforcement Use (165) Surveillance (166) – History and Issues (167) – Benefits and Concerns of Increased Surveillance (171) – Balancing Police Surveillance and Public Safety (174) 1984: An Icon Before its Time (176) Chapter Summary (178) Writing Assignments (178) Suggested Readings (179)
8. The Media and Criminal Justice Policy (180) Slaying Make-Believe Monsters (180) Media Crime-and-Justice Tenets (181) – The Backwards Law (182) – Media’s Crime-and-Justice Ecology (184) – Immanent Justice Rules the Media (186) Technology Enhances Crime Fighting (187) – Real-World Crime and Justice Problems (188) Criminal Justice Policy and Media Research (189) – Crime on the Public Agenda (189) – Beliefs and Attitudes about Crime (190) – Crime-and-Justice Policies (191) The Social Construction of Crime-and-Justice Policy (195) Chapter Summary (198) Writing Assignments (199) Suggested Readings (199)
9. Media and Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century (200) Crime-and-Justice Media Messages (200) – Media Anticrime Efforts (202) – Two Postulates of Media and Crime and Justice (204) – Expanded Public Access to Criminal Justice Procedures (206) – Mediated Reality (207) The Future of Crime-and-Justice Reality (209) – Spectacles (209) – Surveillance (211) Mediated Criminal Justice (213) What You Have Learned (215) Chapter Summary (217) Writing Assignments (218) Suggested Readings (218)
Glossary (219) Notes (226) References (247) Index (269)
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