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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459122003321

Titolo

Framing crime : cultural criminology and the image / / edited by Keith J. Hayward and Mike Presdee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-134-04686-3

1-134-04687-1

1-282-73358-3

9786612733581

0-203-88075-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaywardKeith J

PresdeeMike <1944->

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Crime in mass media

Crime in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Opening the lens: Cultural criminology and the image; Chapter 2 Crime, punishment and the force of photographic spectacle; Chapter 3 The decisive moment: Documentary photography and cultural criminology; Chapter 4 Hindley's ghost: The visual construction of Maxine Carr; Chapter 5 Screening crime: Cultural criminology goes to the movies; Chapter 6 The scene of the crime: Is there such a thing as 'just looking'?; Chapter 7 Imagining the 'war on terror': Fiction, film and framing

Chapter 8 Framing the crimes of colonialism: Critical images of aboriginal art and lawChapter 9 'Drive it like you stole it': A cultural criminology of car commercials; Chapter 10 Staging an execution: The media at McVeigh; Chapter 11 Fighting with images: The production and consumption of violence among online football supporters; Chapter 12 A reflected gaze of humanity: Cultural criminology and images of genocide; Index



Sommario/riassunto

In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual. Images of crime and crime control have become almost as 'real' as crime and criminal justice itself. The meaning of both crime and crime control now resides, not solely in the essential - and essentially false - factuality of crime rates or arrest records, but also in the contested processes of symbolic displa