Media And Crime (key Approaches To Criminology)

YVONNE JEWKES MEDIA & CRIME KEY APPROACHES TO CRIMINOLOGY Jewkes-Prelims.qxd 5/19/04 2:25 PM Page i Media and Crime Jewkes-Prelims.qxd 5/19/04 2:25 PM Page ii Key Approaches to Criminology The new Sage Key Approaches to Criminology series is intended to celebrate the removal of traditional barriers between disciplines and bring together some of the leading scholars working at the intersections of different, yet related subjects. Each book in the series will help readers to make intellectual connections between fields and disciplines, and to understand the importance of studying crime and criminal justice within a broader context of their relation to policy, law, ethics, and so on. This first contribution to the series, Media and Crime, reflects the symbiotic relationship between two of the most pervasive features of late-modern life. Fortunately few of us will be victims of serious crime but all of us know much (some would say too much) about every aspect of offending, victimhood and crime detection. But, as this book makes clear, the ‘picture’ of crime that most of us hold is highly skewed by a range of subtle and not-so-subtle biases, prejudices and false assumptions that permeate the mediation of crime and justice at every stage from media production to media consumption. Yvonne Jewkes Series Editor Jewkes-Prelims.qxd 5/19/04 2:25 PM Page iii Media and Crime Yvonne Jewkes SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Jewkes-Prelims.qxd 5/19/04 2:25 PM Page iv © Yvonne Jewkes 2004 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-7619-4764-7 0-7619-4765-5 Library of Congress Control Number available Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain by the Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Jewkes-Prelims.qxd 5/19/04 2:25 PM Page v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgements xi 1 Theorizing Media and Crime 1 2 The Construction of Crime News 35 3 Media and Moral Panics 63 4 Media Constructions of Children: ‘Evil Monsters’ and ‘Tragic Victims’ 87 5 Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women 107 6 Crimewatching