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Crime in TV, the News, and Film

Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation

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Crime in TV, the News, and Film

Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation

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Crime in TV, the News, and Film provides a fresh look at the interplay between criminal events and the media outlets that cover them. The authors’ diverse backgrounds— a criminologist researcher, a documentarian and media professor, a police officer, and a criminologist who is a former TV reporter— allow for frank discussion. Combining field experience with criminological research, the book gives insight to the everyday media operations that can produce most people’s views on crime and profoundly influence public opinion— public opinion that often frames public policy.

Viewers of crime dramas and consumers of news will gain a new understanding of the way their programs are produced. Readers will become more aware of the issues and biases that sometimes cloud perceptions of crime and criminals. Finally, both experts and scholars interested in the subject will improve their discernment of media stories and media depictions, shining a light on crime in a hazy field. This book can be used in the classroom for an array of courses in the fields of media and communications, criminology, sociology, and more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What's So New About News?
Chapter 2: Murder in the First Degree
Chapter 3: Murder in the First Block
Chapter 4: “True” Crime Shows
Chapter 5: News You Can't Use
Chapter 6: It's All in the Genes
Chapter 7: The Unbearable Weight of Being Black
Chapter 8: Damsels in Distress
Chapter 9: Missing Pretty White Girls
Chapter 10: It's Hard Being a Girl…Even Harder Being a Girl of Color
Chapter 11: Good Cops, Bad Cops, Dirty Cops, and Mad Cops: Five Hollywood Films
Chapter 12: From the TV Screen to the Ballot Box

Product details

Published May 20 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9781793628688
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations; 7 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
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