Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Images and Realities

by SURETTE

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9780534508630

ISBN10:

0534508634

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/16/1997

Publisher(s):

Wadsworth Publishing

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This text is the definitive work on media and criminal justice. With the media's role in reporting crime and using crime as entertainment gaining increasing influence and attention, the importance of the interplay between the mass media news and entertainment systems and the criminal justice system may be greater today than ever before. Surette comprehensively explores this interplay. The basic premise of the text is that people use knowledge obtained from the media to build a picture of the world and then base their actions on this constructed image.

1 MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

(23)

The Study of Media, Crime, and Justice

(3)

Media and the Social Construction of Reality

(10)

The Media's Role in the Process

(4)

Examples of the Media in Action

(3)

The Mass Media and Criminal Justice: Some Introductory Concepts

(7)

Criminal Justice: Due Process and Crime Control

(2)

The Mass Media

(5)

Conclusion

(1)

Chapter Concepts

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

2 THE ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND JUSTICE

(28)

Crime and Justice in the Early Popular Media

(1)

Crime and Justice in Nineteenth-Century Print Media

(3)

Detective and Crime Thrillers

(2)

Comic Books

(1)

Crime and Justice in Film and on Television

(8)

The Development of the Film Industry and Its Social Impact

(1)

Historical Trends in the Portrayal of Crime and Justice in Film

(3)

Television's Emergence

(4)

Portraits of Crime and Justice in the Modern Entertainment Media

(10)

Law Enforcement: The Police and Crime Fighters

(3)

The Courts: Lawyers and Judges

(2)

Corrections: Prisons, Guards, and Prisoners

(2)

The Big Picture: Concerns Regarding the Entertainment Media's Construction of Society

(3)

The Law of Opposites

(2)

The Social Reality of Crime in the Media

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Chapter Concepts

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

3 THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND JUSTICE IN THE NEWS MEDIA

(33)

Early Crime-and-Justice News

(7)

The Penny Press

(2)

The Emergence of a Standard Reporting Style

(3)

Present-Day News: Proactive News Construction

(7)

Newsworthiness, Routinization, and Gatekeeping

(3)

Crime News Case Studies

(3)

Crime and Justice in Contemporary News

(11)

The Content and Relative Prominence of Crime News

(1)

The Criminal in the News

(1)

The Criminal Justice System in the News

(1)

Info-Tainment: Reality Programming and Media Trials

(8)

Concerns About Crime-and-Justice News

(2)

Conclusion: News and Entertainment Reconsidered

(3)

Chapter Concepts

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

4 MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

(29)

The News Media and the Courts--Constructing Separate Realities from Grudgingly Shared Knowledge

(1)

Issues Related to News Coverage and Publicity

(13)

Due Process and Pretrial Publicity

(2)

Social Science Research Concerning Publicity and Trials

(1)

Privacy

(1)

Media Access to Government Information

(3)

Televised Trials

(6)

Controlling Knowledge

101

(9)

Court Mechanisms to Control Prejudicial Materials

102

(3)

Court Mechanisms to Limit the Effects of Published Prejudicial Material

105

(3)

Media Response: Reporters' Privilege and Shield Laws

108

(2)

Conclusion

110

(3)

Chapter Concepts

113

(1)

Discussion Questions

113

(1)

5 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE: MEDIA AS A CAUSE

114

(41)

Studying the Media as a Cause of Crime

115

(3)

Evidence of Media Effects on Aggression

118

(13)

A Brief History of Television-Aggression Research

118

(12)

Summary--Violent Media, Social Aggression

130

(1)

Evidence of Media Effects on Crime

131

(6)

Aggregate Crime Rate Studies

131

(2)

Pornography

133

(4)

Copycat Crime: Its Nature and Reality

137

(15)

The Werther Effect

140

(1)

Magnitude

141

(4)

Theory and Model

145

(3)

Copycat Crime and Terrorism

148

(2)

Copycat Crime: A Summary

150

(2)

Conclusion

152

(1)

Chapter Concepts

153

(1)

Discussion Questions

154

(1)

6 THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND JUSTICE: THE MEDIA AS A CURE FOR CRIME

155

(40)

Constructing Less Crime--The Media and Anticrime Efforts

157

(2)

Media-Based Anticrime Efforts: An Overview

159

(1)

Offender Deterrence Programs

160

(3)

Victimization Reduction Program

163

(10)

Marketing Fear of Crime

164

(4)

Citizen Participation Programs

168

(5)

Reconstructing Criminal Justice: Media Technology in the Criminal Justice System

173

(6)

Surveillance Programs

173

(4)

Summary: Media Technology, Surveillance, and Law Enforcement

177

(2)

Judicial Uses of Media Technology

179

(10)

Presenting Physical Evidence

180

(1)

Presenting Testimony

181

(3)

As a Permanent Court Record

184

(3)

Live Video-Facilitated Proceedings

187

(2)

Unresolved Concerns of the Judicial Use of Media Technology

189

(2)

Conclusion

191

(2)

Chapter Concepts

193

(1)

Discussion Questions

193

(2)

7 THE MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME-AND-JUSTICE ATTITUDES AND POLICIES

195

(45)

The Media and Our Constructed Reality

197

(1)

Public Information and Communication Campaigns

198

(3)

Constructing the Crime-and-Justice Agenda

201

(2)

Constructing Public Attitudes and Beliefs About Crime and Justice

203

(9)

Crime-and-Justice Attitudes and Beliefs

203

(6)

Pornography and Crime-Related Attitudes

209

(2)

Summary: Media and Crime-and-Justice Beliefs and Attitudes

211

(1)

Constructing Crime-and-Justice Public Policies

212

(5)

Problems in Determining Media Effects on Criminal Justice Policy

217

(6)

Summary: The Media and the Social Construction of Crime-and-Justice Reality

222

(1)

Prospects for the Media's Social Reality of Crime and Justice

223

(13)

Understanding Media and Crime-and-Justice Reality

226

(2)

The Future of Reality

228

(3)

Recommendations

231

(3)

Competing Causal Models

234

(2)

Conclusion

236

(2)

Chapter Concepts

238

(1)

Discussion Questions

238

(2)

APPENDIX I SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

240

(9)

Pretrial Publicity

240

(3)

Privacy

243

(2)

Closure, Restrictive, and Protective Orders

245

(2)

Juvenile Proceedings

247

(1)

Journalists' Privilege and Protection of Sources

247

(2)

APPENDIX II RESEARCH SUMMARIES

249

(5)

Laboratory Studies of Mock Juries

249

(3)

Field Studies of Mock Juries

252

(2)

NOTES

254

(21)

REFERENCES

275

(32)

CASE CITES

307

(2)

INDEX

309

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