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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 | |