Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice

by Surette, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780495809142
• ISBN10: 0495809144
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

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