Seeing Justice - Witnessing, Crime and Punishment in Visual Media

In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock studies the way the American criminal justice system is visually represented in news. Going behind the scenes, she examines the way visual journalists negotiate with police and court officials to cover the criminal justice system, and how officials endeavour to create favourable narratives by controlling what the public sees.

About the author

Mary Angela Bock is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin. She studies the construction of media representations and the way they can perpetuate or dismantle systems of oppression. She has written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored or edited three books. Bock's previous career spanned more than 20 years in television news, with stints as a newspaper reporter, a radio journalist, and public relations writer. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.

Summary

In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock studies the way the American criminal justice system is visually represented in news. Going behind the scenes, she examines the way visual journalists negotiate with police and court officials to cover the criminal justice system, and how officials endeavour to create favourable narratives by controlling what the public sees.

Additional text

A remarkable achievement! Informative, insightful and engaging. Seeing Justice is a compelling book that will engage and delight the reader. It exposes the way images about justice are created, contextualized and distributed, and how different social actors struggle for control of those processes. Bock's wry wit is a welcome bonus, too often missing in books of this character."

Product details

• Authors: Mary Angela Bock, Mary Angela (Associate Professor Bock, Bock Mary Angela
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780190926977
• ISBN: 978-0-19-092697-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Press & journalism, Information technology industries, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism