Media, Crime and Racism

Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting, Waqas Tufail, Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting, Waqas Tufail

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783319717753
• eBook ISBN: 9783319717760
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities. Comprised of empirically rich accounts and theoretically informed analysis, this dynamic text offers readers a critical and in-depth examination of contemporary social and criminal justice issues as they pertain to racialised minorities and the media. Chapters demonstrate the myriad ways in which racialised 'others' experience demonisation, exclusion, racist abuse and violence licensed – and often induced – by the state and the media. Together, they also offer original and nuanced analysis of how these processes can be experienced differently dependent on geography, political context and local resistance. This collection critically reflects on a number of globally significant topics including thevilification of Muslim minorities, the portrayal of the refugee 'crisis' and the representations and resistance of Indigenous and Black communities. This volume demonstrates that processes of racialisation and criminalisation in media and the state cannot be understood without reference to how they are underscored and inflected by gender and power. Above all, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the resistance of racialised minorities in localised contexts across the globe: against racialisation and criminalisation and in pursuit of racial justice. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Turning the Tables? Media Constructions of British Asians from Victims to Criminals, 1962–2011
• 3. Cultural Repertoires and Modern Menaces: The Media’s Racialised Coverage of Child Sexual Exploitation
• 4. Media, State and ‘Political Correctness’: The Racialisation of the Rotherham Child Sexual Abuse Scandal
• 5. The New Year’s 2015/2016 Public Sexual Violence Debate in Germany: Media Discourse, Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Criminal Law
• 6. Culture, Media and Everyday Practices: Unveiling and Challenging Islamophobia
• 7. Stupid Paki Loving Bitch: The Politics of Online Islamophobia and Misogyny
• 8. ‘Ta-Ta Qatada’: Islamophobic Moral Panic and the British Tabloid Press
• 9. Bordering on Denial: State Persecution, Border Controls and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
• 10. Social Death: The (White) Racial Framing of the Calais ‘Jungle’ and ‘Illegal’ Migrants in the British Tabloids and Right-Wing Press
• 11. Racism as a Crime in Britain’s Right-Wing Press
• 12. Closeness and Distance in Media Reports on the Trollhättan Attack
• 13. Racism, the Press and Black Deaths in Police Custody in the United Kingdom
• 14. Indigenous People, Resistance and Racialised Criminality
• 15. An Analysis of Anti-Black Crime Reporting in Toronto: Evidence from News Frames and Critical Race Theory
• 16. Contesting the Single Story: Collective Punishment, Myth-Making and Racialised Criminalisation
• 17. The Figure of the ‘Foreign Criminal’: Race, Gender and the FNP
• 18. Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems
• Back Matter