TY - BOOK AU - Kidd-Hewitt,David AU - Osborne,Richard TI - Crime and the media: the post-modern spectacle SN - 0745309119 U1 - 070.449364 PY - 1995/// CY - London PB - Pluto KW - Crime in mass media KW - Great Britain KW - Crime and the press KW - Mass media and criminal justice N1 - Includes index; Acknowledgements --; List of tables --; Preface --; 1; Crime and the Media: A Criminological Perspective --; 2; Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Post-modernism --; 3; Entertaining the Crisis: Television and Moral Enterprise --; 4; Black Cops and Black Villains in Film and TV Crime Fiction --; 5; Telling Tales: Media Power, Ideology and the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Britain --; 6; Media Reporting of Rape: The 1993 British 'Date Rape' Controversy --; 7; Through the Looking Glass: Public Images of White Collar Crime --; 8; A Fair Cop? Viewing the Effects of the Canteen Culture in Prime Suspect and Between The Lines --; 9; Prime Time Punishment: The British Prison and Television --; 10; Small Crime to Big Time: An Australian Celebrity Self-abduction --; 11; From Desire to Deconstruction: Horror Films and Audience Reactions --; Notes on Contributors --; Index ER -