Crime and the Media

by Sarah E.H. Moore

Book Overview

From video games that allow us to participate in Mafia-style violence, to newspaper reports about the latest terrorist atrocity, from detective novels that fill our bedside cabinets, to Hollywood's beloved legal dramas - the mass media is saturated with stories about crime, justice and disorder. Together they create a cultural landscape of crime that is distinctly at odds with reality, as criminologists are apt to complain.

Crime and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230302890
• ISBN13: 9780230302891
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"