MEDIA, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, International Edition is the definitive text on media and criminal justice. Its scholarship is impeccable, its style direct and approachable, and its format engaging and complete with visual examples and a collection of sidebar material that complements the main discussions.With the ever-increasing role of media in both reporting crime and shaping itinto infotainment, the importance of the interplay between contemporary mediaand the criminal justice system is greater today than ever before. Author RaySurette comprehensively surveys this interplay while emphasizing that people use media-provided knowledge to construct a picture of the world, and then actbased on this constructed reality. INDICE: 1. Predators, Pictures and Policy: An Introduction. 2. Social Constructionism. 3. Crime and Criminality. 4. Crime Fighters. 5. The Courts. 6. Corrections. 7. Crime Control. 8. The Media and Criminal Justice Policy. 9. Media and Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Glossary. References. Index. Image Credits.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-81288-3
- Editorial: Wadsworth
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 10/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés