Crime and the media :  the post-modern spectacle / 
edited by David Kidd-Hewitt and Richard Osborne. 
 - x, 256 p. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  List of tables --  Preface --  Crime and the Media: A Criminological Perspective --  Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Post-modernism --  Entertaining the Crisis: Television and Moral Enterprise --  Black Cops and Black Villains in Film and TV Crime Fiction --  Telling Tales: Media Power, Ideology and the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Britain --  Media Reporting of Rape: The 1993 British 'Date Rape' Controversy --  Through the Looking Glass: Public Images of White Collar Crime --  A Fair Cop? Viewing the Effects of the Canteen Culture in Prime Suspect and Between The Lines --  Prime Time Punishment: The British Prison and Television --  Small Crime to Big Time: An Australian Celebrity Self-abduction --  From Desire to Deconstruction: Horror Films and Audience Reactions --  Notes on Contributors --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0745309119 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Crime in mass media--Great Britain<br/>Crime and the press--Great Britain<br/>Mass media and criminal justice--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>070.449364