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9781577664468

Constructing Crime

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  • ISBN13:

    9781577664468

  • ISBN10:

    1577664469

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-10
  • Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(18)
Part I Making News 19(74)
1 Enter Moral Panics
21(8)
Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda
2 Media Constructions of Crime
29(13)
Vincent F. Sacco
3 Crime Waves as Ideology
42(17)
Mark Fishman
4 Fear and Loathing on Reality Television: An Analysis of America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries
59(11)
Gray Cavender & Lisa Bond-Maupin
5 State Managers, Intellectuals, and the Media: A Content Analysis of Ideology in Experts' Quotes in Feature Newspaper Articles on Crime
70(23)
Michael Welch, Melissa Fenwick, & Meredith Roberts
Part II Constructing Crime Problems 93(174)
6 The Gang Initiation Rite as a Motif in Contemporary Crime Discourse
95(20)
Joel Best & Mary M. Hutchinson
7 The Presentation of Drugs in the News Media: The News Sources Involved in the Construction of Social Problems
115(28)
Steven Chermak
8 The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers against Drunk Drivers and Social Control in the 1980's
143(25)
Craig Reinarman
9 Coverage of Domestic Violence Fatalities by Newspapers in Washington State
168(22)
Cathy Ferrand Bullock & Jason Cubert
10 The Media Construction of Stalking Stereotypes
190(23)
Brian H. Spitzberg & Michelle Cadiz
11 The Role of Television News in the Construction of School Violence as a "Moral Panic"
213(16)
Donna Killingbeck
12 Constructing "Crime": Media Coverage of Individual and Organizational Wrongdoing
229(19)
William S. Lofquist
13 "Road Warriors" on "Hair-Trigger Highways": Cultural Resources and the Media's Construction of the 1987 Freeway Shootings Problem
248(19)
Joel Best
Part III Effects of Constructing Crime 267(100)
14 Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects
269(19)
Ted Chiricos, Sarah Eschholz, & Marc Gertz
15 Perceived Fears: The Reporting Patterns of Juvenile Homicide in Chicago Newspapers
288(25)
John G. Boulahanis & Martha J. Heltsley
16 "All the News That's Fit to Print": A Content Analysis of the Correctional Debate in the New York Times
313(18)
Michael Welch, Lisa Weber, & Walter Edwards
17 Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media
331(14)
Craig Reinarman & Ceres Duskin
18 Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime
345(22)
Ronald Weitzer & Charis E. Kubrin
Epilogue 367(12)
Index 379

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