Cognella Academic Publishing Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: A Reader

Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: A Reader provides readers with a variety of articles that showcase examples of cutting-edge research on crime and media. The text helps students better understand how crime and media are intertwined within culture and how this unique connection influences our behaviors, attitudes, and values.Unit One provides an overview of the major conceptual tools used by media and crime scholars. Dedicated readings explore the concept of globalization to contextualize the study of crime, copycat crime, moral panic, the debate surrounding the influence of violent media content on violent behavior, and more.Unit Two examines common crime narratives in the news media and popular culture. Students read about the over inflation of crime statistics, actors and institutions within the criminal justice system, and television news coverage of corporate crime.The final unit explores how political processes and media narratives combine to either deepen or hinder our democratic values. Dedicated readings speak to the political economy of media ownership, how mass media often reinforce criminal stereotypes about Black Americans, the rise in feminism in the horror genre, and more.Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice is ideal for courses in criminal justice, criminology, communications, cultural studies, and sociology. About the Author James Buccellato, Ph.D. has been a faculty member in the Department of Criminology and Crime Justice at Northern Arizona University and the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University for many years. He researches and writes about the politics of crime, and his work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, crime anthologies, and on national news websites. Dr. Buccellato is the author of Early Organized Crime in Detroit: Vice, Corruption, and the Rise of the Mafia and is a certified gang specialist with the National Gang Crime Research Center in Chicago.