Media and Crime in the U.S. by Yvonne Jewkes Travis W. Linnemann

Author:Yvonne Jewkes, Travis W. Linnemann [Yvonne Jewkes, Travis W. Linnemann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology, Popular Culture, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781483373911
Google: T3tZDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2017-07-27T05:23:15+00:00

Chapter Contents

The Mass Media and Fear of Crime 151

The Police Image: Television and Film 158

Cops and Reality TV 161

Policing and Social Media 163

Image Management 164

Summary 169

Study Questions 170

Further Reading 170

Overview

Chapter 6 provides:

A discussion of the changing mediated (or “mediatized”) relationship between police and the public.

Consideration of the relationship between the media and public fears about crime, and the rationality or irrationality of such fears.

A comparison between “critical criminological” and “left realist” perspectives on fear of crime.

A consideration of the changing roles of the police and of the symbolic power of the community police officer and the tough-on-crime cop in the contemporary social imagination.

An analysis of the origins and genre conventions of the long-running “reality” series Cops.

A discussion of how police use social media for crime control purposes and to produce and control the police image.

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