Crime Statistics in the News: Journalism, Numbers and Social Deviation

by Jairo Lugo-Ocando

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Crime in the News.- Chapter 2. How Crime Statistics Became News.- Chapter 3. Media Representations of Crime Statistics.- Chapter 4. Stabbing News: What Knife Crime Tells Us about Crime Statistics in the Newsroom.- Chapter 5. News, Public Policy and Crime Statistics.- Chapter 6. Spinning Crime Statistics.- Chapter 7. Visualising Crime Statistics.- Chapter 8. Crime Statistics and the Public.- Conclusion

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113739840X
• ISBN13: 9781137398406
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"