Criminal Visions
Media Representations of Crime and Justice

Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest. This work brings together a range of papers from researchers addressing issues of fictional, factual, and hybrid representations in the media - the so called "docu-dramas" and "faction".

Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few publications address this subject head on. This book aims to meet this need by bringing together an important range of papers from leading researchers in the field, addressing issues of fictional, factual and hybrid representations in the media -the so called 'docu-dramas' and 'faction'.

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