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Become a critical media consumer with the help of MEDIA, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. With the ever-increasing role of media in both reporting crime and shaping it into infotainment, the importance of the interplay between contemporary media and the criminal justice system is greater today than ever before. Author Ray Surette comprehensively surveys this interplay and showcases its impact, emphasizing that people use media-provided knowledge to construct a picture of the world and then act based on this constructed reality. He also provides a bridge between relevant mass media research findings and criminal justice practice, and corrects common misconceptions about the mass media's effects on crime and justice.
List of contents
1. Crime, Justice, and Media.
2. New Media and Social Constructionism.
3. Images of Crime and Criminality.
4. Criminogenic Media.
5. Crime Fighters.
6. The Courts.
7. Corrections.
8. Crime Control.
9. The Media and Criminal Justice Policy.
10. New Media, Crime, and Justice.
11. New Media, Crime, and Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
About the author
Ray Surette has a doctorate in criminology from Florida State University and is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. His crime and media research interests revolve around the media's effects on perceptions of crime and justice, criminogenic media, and criminal justice policies. He has published numerous articles and books on media, crime, and criminal justice topics and is internationally recognized as a scholar in the area. He has published research on the development of public information officers in criminal justice agencies, crime and justice infotainment programming, copycat crime, the effects of news coverage of high profile trials on similarly charged non-publicized trials and on police recruits, the effects of news coverage of corrections on municipal jail population trends, media oriented terrorism, and the use of computer-aided camera surveillance systems in law enforcement. He is currently working on a book on copycat crime.
Summary
Surveys the interplay between contemporary media and the criminal justice system, illustrating how people use media-provided knowledge to construct a picture of the world and then act on that constructed reality.
