Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice

Abstract

Introduction: visions of crime and justice by P. Mason Part One: Criminal Visions in Context 1. From law and order to lynch mobs: crime news since the Second World War by R. Reiner, S. Livingstone and J. Allen 2. Video violence: how far can you go? by J. Petley 3. 'Signal crimes': detective work, mass media and constructing collective memory by M. Innes Part Two: Criminal Representations - Crimes and Criminals 4. Masculinity, morality and action: Michael Mann and the heist movie by J. Rayner 5. Sex crime and the media: press representations in Northern Ireland by C. Greer 6. Organized crime: Mafia myths in film and television by G. S. Larke 7. Political violence, Irish Republicanism and the British media: semantics, symbiosis and the state by M. Hayes 8. Mass media/mass murder: serial killer cinema and the modern violated body by I. Conrich Part Three: Criminal Decisions - Agencies and Agents 9. Photo stories and family albums: imaging criminals and victims on Crimewatch UK by D. Jermyn 10. Media representations of visual surveillance by M. McCahill 11. Completing the 'half-formed picture'? Media images of policing by R. C. Mawby 12. Film lawyers: above and beyond the law by S. Greenfield and G. Osborn 13. British justice: not suitable for public viewing? by D. Stepniak 14. The screen machine: cinematic representations of prison by P. Mason

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