Communicative Architecture of Policing - Community, Power & Legitimacy in the Age of New Media

Based on nearly a decade of research on police-media relations, and the first to undertake a deep ethnography of police communications and local news media in a single policing area, this book charts the emergence of an empowered professional police communicator class in policing rooted in the mass communications potential of social media.

List of contents

Introduction and Outline, 1. Crime, Policing and News Media, 2. Approach in the Field, 3. Constructing and Policing the Community, 4. Audiences, Sources and Newsroom Values: Self-Legitimation in Contemporary Local Journalism, and its Crises, 5. Constructing and Legitimating Police Communicator Identity, 6. The Labour of Police Legitimation, 7. The Architecture of Contemporary Police-Media Relations, 8. Contemporary Police-Media Relations in the Governance Field: Community, Identity, and the Mechanics of Local Governing Power

About the author

Cian Ó Concubhair is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Maynooth University's School of Law & Criminology. Cian researches across criminal law, policing, and media, with a particular focus police legitimacy, police-media relations and the politics of criminal justice.

Product details

• Authors: Cian O Concubhair, Cian Ó Concubhair
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032695679
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269567-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, Press & journalism, Humanities, Legal aspects of criminology, Police & security services, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, News media and journalism, Criminal justice law, Police and security services, Police law & police procedures, Criminology: legal aspects, Police law and police procedures, Social law and Medical law