Syllabus/achievement requirements

Texts in bold can all be found in

Crime and Media: A Reader (2010). Chris Greer (ed.). London & New York, Routledge.

Understanding Media and Crime

Baudrillard, Jean (1981): "Simulacra and Simulations". 16 p.

Castells, Manuel (1997): "An Introduction to the Information Age". 13 p.

Greer, Chris and Robert Reiner (2012): "Mediated Mayhem: Media, Crime, Criminal Justice. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner (eds). 35 p.

Hall, Stuart (1980): "Encoding-Decoding". 12 p.

Jewkes, Yvonne (2011): Media & Crime. London: Sage. All chapters except 8 and 9. 214 p.

McLuhan, Marshall (1964): "The Medium is the Message". 12 p.

 

Crime and Popular Culture

Ferrell, Jeff: "Crimes of Style". 16 p. 

Jarvis, Brian (2007): "Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and Consumer Culture". 14 p.

Langford, Barry (2005): "The Gangster Film: Genre and Society". 17 p.

Reiner, Robert (1994): "The Dialectics of Dixon: The Changing Image of the TV Cop". 9 p.

Reiner, Robert, Sonia Livingston, and Jessica Allen (2001): "Casino Culture: Media and Crime in a Winner-Loser Society". 11 p.

Todorov, Tzvetan (1966): "The Typology of Detective Fiction". 9 p. 

Valverde, Mariana (2006): "From the Hard-Boiled Detective to the Pre-Crime Unit". 13 p. 

 

Crime News

Chibnall, Steve (1977): "Press Ideology: The Politics of Professionalism". 13 p.

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek and Janet Chan (1987): "Research Approaches". 12 p. 

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek and Janet Chan (1991): "Reading the News Photographs". 16 p.

Jones, Phil J. and Claire Wardle (2008): "'No Emotion, Ny Sympathy' : The Visual Construction of Maxine Carr". Crime, media, culture 4 (1), 53-72, 20 p.

Hall, Stuart (1973): "The Determination of News Photographs".  13 p.

Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts (1978): "The Social Production of News". 13 p. 

Katz, Jack (1987): "What Makes Crime News?". 12 p. 

 

Effects, Influence and Moral Panics

Bandura, Albert, Dorothea Ross and Sheila Ross (1963): "Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models". 12 p.  

Barker, Martin and Julian Petley (2001): "From Bad Media Violence Research to Good: A Guide for the Perplexed". 17 p.

Cohen, Stanley (1972): "Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers". 23 p.

Ditton, Jason, Derek Chadee, Stephen Farrall, Elisabeth Gilchrist and Jon Bannister (2004): "From Imitation to Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship Between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime". 20 p. 

Gauntlett, David (2001): "The Worrying Influence of ‘Media Effects’ Studies". 10 p.

Gerbner, George and Larry Gross (1976): "Living with Television: The Violence Profile". 24 p.

McRobbie, Angela and Sarah Thornton (1995): "Rethinking 'Moral Panic' for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds". 8 p.  

 

Media, Crime and the Political

Habermas, Jürgen (1974): "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article". 10 p.

Herman, Edward S. and Noam Chomsky (1988):  "A Propaganda Model". 12 p.

Kitzinger, Jenny (2004): "The Debate About Media Influence". 23 p.  

Schlesinger, Philip Howard Tumber and Graham Murdock (1991): "The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice". 14 p.  

 

The Nordic Perspective

Berrington, Eileen and P?ivi Honkatukia (2002): "An Evil Monster and a Poor Thing : Female Violence in the Media". Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 3 (1), 50-72, 23 p.

Cere, Rinella, Yvonne Jewkes and Thomas Ugelvik (2013): "Media and Crime: A Comparative Analysis of Crime News in the Uk, Norway and Italy ". S Body-Gendrot, R Lévy, M Hough, S Snacken and K Kerezsi (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology Abingdon: Routledge. 15 p.

Estrada, Felipe (2001): "Juvenile Violence as a Social Problem : Trends, Media Attention and Societal Response". British journal of criminology 41 (4), 639-655. 17 p.

Green, David A. (2011): "Media, Crime and Nordic Exceptionalism". T Ugelvik and J Dullum (ed.): Penal Exceptionalism? : Nordic Prison Policy and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. 20 p.

Peelo, Moira (2006): "Framing Homicide Narratives in Newspapers : Mediated Witness and the Construction of Virtual Victimhood". Crime, media, culture 2 (2), 159-175. 17 p.

Skilbrei, May-Len (2012): "Sisters in Crime: Representations of Gender and Class in the Media Coverage and Court Proceedings of the Triple Homicide at Orderud Farm". Crime, media, culture 9 (2), 136-152, 17 p.

Smolej, Mirka and Janne Kivivuori (2006): “The Relation Between Crime News and Fear of Violence”. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. 7 (2), 211-227, 16 p.

 

 

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