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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Predators, Pictures, and Policy | |
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Media and Criminal Justice: A Forced Marriage | |
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The Blurring of Fact and Fiction | |
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A Brief History of Crime-and-Justice Media | |
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Print Media | |
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Sound Media | |
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Visual Media | |
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New Media | |
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Types of Content | |
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Entertainment | |
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Advertising | |
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News | |
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Infotainment | |
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Crime and Justice as a Mediated Experience | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Social Constructionism | |
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The Social Construction of Crime and Justice | |
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The Sources of Social Knowledge | |
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Experienced Reality | |
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Symbolic Reality | |
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Socially Constructed Reality | |
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The Social Construction Process and the Media | |
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The Concepts of Social Constructionism | |
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Claims Makers and Claims | |
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Frames | |
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Narratives | |
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Symbolic Crimes | |
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Ownership | |
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The Social Construction Process in Action | |
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Social Construction of Road Rage | |
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Reconstruction of Driving Under the Influence | |
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Competing Constructions of the Arrest of Rodney King | |
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Social Constructionism and Crime and Justice | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Crime and Criminality | |
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Criminals, Crimes, and Criminality | |
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Criminals | |
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Predatory Criminality | |
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Crime Victims | |
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Crimes | |
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White-Collar Crime | |
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Criminological Theories and the Media | |
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Criminality in Today's Media | |
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Criminogenic Media | |
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Violent Media and Aggression | |
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Media and Criminal Behavior | |
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Copycat Crime | |
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Media-Oriented Terrorism | |
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Criminogenic infotainment | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Crime Fighters | |
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Law Enforcement: A House Divided | |
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Media Constructs of Professional Soldiers in the War on Crime | |
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Lampooned Police | |
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G-Men and Police Procedural | |
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Cops | |
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Police as Infotainment: "Who yon gonna call?" | |
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Dusting for Saliva: The CSI Effect, Forensic Science, and Juror Expectations | |
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Police and the Media | |
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Media Constructs of Citizen Soldiers in the War on Crime | |
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Private Investigators | |
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Private Citizens | |
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Professional Versus Citizen Crime Fighters | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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The Courts | |
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Media, Infotainment, and the Courts | |
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Courts, Attorneys, and Evidence | |
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Crime-Fighting Attorneys | |
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Female Attorneys | |
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Media Trials | |
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Media Trial Effects | |
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Merging Judicial New with Entertainment | |
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Live Television in Courtrooms | |
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Pretrial Publicity, Judicial Controls, and Access | |
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Pretrial Publicity | |
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Judicial Mechanisms to Deal with Pretrial Publicity | |
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Media Access to Government Information | |
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Reporters' Privilege and Shield Laws | |
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The Courts as Twenty-First-Century Entertainment | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Corrections | |
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Historical Perspective | |
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Sources of Correctional Knowledge | |
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Prison Films | |
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Correctional Television and Infotainment | |
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Corrections in the News | |
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Corrections Portraits and Stereotypes | |
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Prisoners | |
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Correctional Institutions | |
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Correctional Officers | |
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The Primitive "Lost World" of Corrections | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Crime Control | |
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Media and Crime Control | |
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Public Service Announcements Join the War on Crime | |
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Victimization-reduction Ads | |
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Citizen-cooperation Ads | |
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Case Processing Using Media Technology | |
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Judicial System Use | |
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Law Enforcement Use | |
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Surveillance | |
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History and Issues | |
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Benefits and Concerns of Increased Surveillance | |
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Balancing Police Surveillance and Public Safety | |
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1984: An Icon before its Time | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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The Media and Criminal Justice Policy | |
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Slaying Make-Believe Monsters | |
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Media Crime-and-Justice Tenets | |
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The Backwards Law | |
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Media's Crime-and-Justice Ecology | |
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Immanent Justice Rules the Media | |
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Technology Enhances Crime Fighting | |
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Real-World Crime and Justice Problems | |
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Criminal Justice Policy and Media Research | |
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Crime on the Public Agenda | |
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Beliefs and Attitudes about Crime | |
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Crime-and-Justice Policies | |
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The Social Construction of Crime-and-Justice Policy | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Media and Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century | |
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Crime-and-Justice Media Messages | |
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Media Anticrime Efforts | |
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Two Postulates of Media and Crime and Justice | |
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Expanded Public Access to Criminal Justice Procedures | |
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Mediated Reality | |
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The Future of Crime-and-Justice Reality | |
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Spectacles | |
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Surveillance | |
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Mediated Criminal Justice | |
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What You Have Learned | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Glossary | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |