Media and Crime (Key Approaches to Criminology) - Softcover

Jewkes, Yvonne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761947655 ISBN 13: 9780761947653

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This book points a critical spotlight on media constructions of crime and social control, developing our understanding of the relationship between media and crime, and taking existing knowledge in new directions. Media and Crime is an accessible text with a strong pedagogic purpose, making it an ideal introduction to the study of crime and the mass media for undergraduate and graduate students. The author interrogates the most important literature in the field as well as moving the debates forward with new ideas and values.

About this title

About the Author:

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has been carrying out prison research―much of it ethnography―for over 20 years and has spent the last decade researching and writing about prison architecture and design and their potential to rehabilitate. She has recently held two Economic and Social Research Council grants to study these topics and has worked as a consultant to prison architects and senior prison service personnel around the world. She has published extensively on various aspects of prisons and imprisonment, including (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett) The Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed., 2016, Routledge). With Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, she is the Founding Editor of the new SAGE journal Incarceration.

 

 

Review:

"Jewke′s book is thus a triangulated study, which contributes to a usefully interdisciplinary attempt to think through the relationship between media and crime.  While it is written as a textbook, the rich and varied theoretical substance of, and case studies in, the book is suitable for research review purposes.  Media and Crime: A Critical Introduction is a useful introductory text, which contains useful features for class discussion (e.g., study questions, summary, keyword definition)."

―ASIAN CRIMINOLOGY Author: J.N. Erni Published On: 2008-03-27

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761947655
• ISBN 13: 9780761947653
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256