Sex Crime and the Media
eBook - ePub

Sex Crime and the Media

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sex Crime and the Media

About this book

Sex crime has become one of the most intense areas of public and political concern in recent decades. This book explores the complex influences that shape its construction in the press. Media representations give important clues as to how we should perceive the nature and extent of sex crime, how we should think and feel about it, how we should respond to it, and the measures that might be taken to reduce risk. Understanding the media construction of sex crime is central to understanding its meaning and place in our everyday lives. Unlike much of the existing research, this book explores the construction of sex crime at every stage of the news production process. It then locates the findings within a wider context of cultural, economic and political change in late modernity. The book; shows how increased market competition and tabloidisation has altered fundamentally the way in which news is produced, communicated and consumed discusses representations of the full range of sex crimes from consensual homosexual offences and prostitution to serial rape and sex murder draws upon extensive empirical research in Northern Ireland, while addressing issues relevant to advance capitalist societies across the globe

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781135999865
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Theory and context
  11. 3 News values, newsworthiness and the construction of sex crime
  12. 4 Press representations of sex crime in Northern Ireland: an empirical analysis
  13. 5 Commercialism, conflict and culture
  14. 6 Consensus and controversy
  15. 7 Concerns in context
  16. 8 Responsibility and management
  17. 9 Conclusions
  18. Appendix I Definitions of sex offences
  19. Appendix II The recording of sex crime reports
  20. Appendix III Details of sample newspapers
  21. Appendix IV List of interviews
  22. References
  23. Index

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