Readings in Media, Crime and Justice

In this section I offer a short bibliography of some of the research on issues of media, crime and justice, plus a few other areas. I also posted links to a variety of videos and other files on issues I find important and relvant to media and justice.

Media:

Media Institutions and Productions

Bagdikian, Ben. (2004). The New Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press.

Carpentier, Nico and Benjamin De Cleen. (2008). Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Fishman, Mark. (1980). Manufacturing The News. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Herman, Edward, and Noam Chomsky. (1988). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books.

Gans, Herbert. (1979). Deciding What's News: a Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time. New York: Pantheon Books.

Gitlin, Todd. (1983). Inside Prime Time. Berkely, CA: University of Califormia Press.

Klinenberg, Eric. (2007). Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media. New York: Metropolitan Books.

McChesney. Robert. (2004). The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. New York: The Monthly Review Press.

Tuchman, Gaye. (1978). Making News: A Study in the Construction of Social Reality. New York: The Free Press.

News Media

Allan, Stuart. (2006). Online News. London: Open University Press.

Bennett, Lance W. (2005). News: The Politics of Illusion. (6th ed.) New York: Pearson Press.

Entman, Robert. (2004). Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Fishman, Mark. (1980). Manufacturing The News. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Gans, Herbert. (1979). Deciding What's News: a Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time. New York: Pantheon Books.

Schudson, Michael. (1978). Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. New York: Basic Books.

Tuchman, Gaye. (1978). Making News: A Study in the Construction of Social Reality. New York: The Free Press.

Media Frames and Content Studies

Chermak, Steven. (1997). "The Presentation of Drugs in the News Media: The News Sources Involved in the Construction of Social Problems." Justice quarterly. 14(4): 687-718.

Collins, Patricia Hill. (2005). Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism. New York: Routledge.

Craig, Steve. (1992). Men, Masculinity, and the Media. Steve Craig (Ed.). London: Sage Publications.

Durham, M. Gigi. (2008). The Lolita Effect. New York: The Overlook Press.

Entman, Robert. (1992). "Blacks in the News: Television, Modern Racism and Cultural Change." Journalism Quarterly. 69(2): 341-361.

Entman, Robert. (2004). Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Gray, Herman. (1986). "Television and the new black man: black male images in prime-time situation comedy." Media, Culture and Society. 8:223-242.

Gross, Larry. (1989). "Out of the mainstream: Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media." in Remote Control: Television, Audiences, adn Cultural Power. Seiter, Borchers, Kreutzner, and Warth (eds.). New York: Routledge.

Tuchman, Gaye, Arlene Kaplan Daniels and James Benet. (1978). Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media. New York: Oxford University Press.

The Political Economy of Media

Bagdikian, Ben. (2004). The New Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press.

Herman, Edward, and Noam Chomsky. (1988). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books.

Gitlin, Todd. (1980). The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media and the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McChesney, Robert. (1999). Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. New York: The New Press.

McChesney, Robert. (2004). The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. New York: The Monthly Review Press.

McCheshney, Robert. (2008). The Political Economy of Media: enduring issues, emerging dilemmas. New York: The Monthly Review Press.

Media Reception/Audiencing

Couldry, Nick. (2000). The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age. London: Routledge Press.

Gamson, William. (1992). Talking Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Entman, Robert and Andrew Rojecki. (2000). The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Milkie, Melissa. (1999). "Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impace ot Pervasice Beauty Images on Black and White Girl's Self-Concepts." Social Psychology Quarterly. 62: 329-353.

Press, Andrea. (1991). Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press.

Seiter, Ellen, Hans Borchers, Gabriele Kreutzner, and Eva-Maria Warth. (1991). Remote Control: Television, Audiences and Cultural Power. London: Routledge Press.

Media and Social Theory

Thompson, John. (1995). The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Historical Study of Media

Gorman, Lyn and David McLean. (2003). Media and Society in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

McChesney. Robert. (2004). The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. New York: The Monthly Review Press.

Starr, Paul. (2004). The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. New York: Basic Books.

Winseck, Dwayne and Robert Pike. (2007). Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

The Internet

Allan, Stuart. (2006). Online News. London: Open University Press.

Boczkowski, Pablo. (2005). Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Howard, Philip. (2006). New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Media Effects Studies

Bryant, Jennings and Dolf Zillmann. (2002). Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research. Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillmann (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Entman, Robert and Andrew Rojecki. (2000). The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

McCombs, Maxwell. (2004). Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion.Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Milkie, Melissa. (1999). "Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impace ot Pervasice Beauty Images on Black and White Girl's Self-Concepts." Social Psychology Quarterly. 62: 329-353.

Press, Andrea. (1991). Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press.

Signorielli, Nancy and Michael Morgan. (1990). Cultivation Analysis: New Directions in Media Effects Research. Nancy Signorielli and Michael Morgan (Eds.). London: Sage Publications.

Radical, Alternative and Social Movement Media

Armstrong, David. (1981). A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America. Boston: South End Press.

Downing, John Tamara Villarreal Ford, Geneve Gil and Laura Stein. (2001). Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

McChesney, Robert, Russell Newman, and Ben Scott. (2005). The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. Robert McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott (Eds.). New York: Seven Stories Press.

 

Crime, Inequality and Justice:(many taken from Crime and Imprisonment page)

Beckett, Katherine. (1997). Making Crime Pay: law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Currie, Elliott. (1998). Crime and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked--and What Will. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press.

Gies, Lieve. (2008). Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship. New York: Routledge.

Herivel, Tara and Paul Wright. (2003). Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor. Herivel and Wright (Eds.). New York: Routledge.

Herivel, Tara and Paul Wright. (2007). Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration. Herivel and Wright (Eds.). New York: The New Press.

Kennedy, Randall. (1997). Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Random House.

Manza, Jeff and Christopher Uggen (2006). Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pattillo, Mary, David Weiman, and Bruce Western. (2004). Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. Pattillo, Weiman and Western (Eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Petersilia, Joan. (2003). When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pratt, John. (2007). Penal Populism. London: Routledge.

Reiman, Jeffrey (2004). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prisons: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice. (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson Publishing.

Tonry, Michael. (2004). Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Tonry, Michael. (2004). The Future of Imprisonment. Tonry (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Western, Bruce. (2006). Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

 

Media and Crime/Law:

Altheide, David. (2002). Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Bailey, Frankie and Donna Hale. (1998). Popular Culture, Crime and Justice. Frankie Bailey and Donna Hale (Eds.). New York: Wadsworth Publishing.

Banks, Mark. (2005). "Spaces of (in0security: Media and fear of crime in a local context." in Crime Media Culture: An International Journal. 1(2): 169-187.

Beckett, Katherine. (1997). Making Crime Pay: law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Brownstein, Henry. (1995). "The Media and th eConstruction of Random Drug Violence." in Cultural Criminology Jeff Ferrell and Clinton Sanders (Eds.). Boston: Northeastern Press.

Chermak, Steven. (1995). Victims in the News: Crime and the American News Media. Oxford: Westview Press.

Chermak, Steven. (1997). "The Presentation of Drugs in the News Media: The News Sources Involved in the Construction of Social Problems." Justice quarterly. 14(4): 687-718.

Chiricos, Ted, Sarah Eschholz and Marc Gertz. (1997). "Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects." Social Problems. 44(3): 342-357.

Cohen, Stanley. (1972). Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. London: MacGibbon & Kee.

Dominick, Joseph. (1978). "Crime and Law Enforcement in the Mass Media." in Deviance and Mass Media. Charles Winick (Ed.). London: Sage.

Fishman, Mark. (1978). "Crime Waves as Ideology." Social Problems. 25(5): 531-543.

Fox, Richard, Robert W. Van Sickel and Thomas L. Steiger. (2007). Tabloid Justice: Criminal Justice in an Age of Media Frenzy. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Gies, Lieve. (2008). Law and the Media: the Future of an Uneasy Relationship. New York: Routledge-Cavendish.

Glassner, Barry. (1999). The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things." New York: Basic Books.

Kooistra, Paul G. and Josh S. Mahoney, Jr. (1999). "The Historical Roots of Tabloid TV Crime." in Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control. Jeff Ferrell and Neil Websdale (Eds.). New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Potter, Gary W. and victor E. Kappeler. (1996). Constructing Crime: Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems. Gary Potter and Victor Kappeler (Eds.). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Reinarman, Craig and Ceres Duskin. (1992). "Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media." International Journal on Drug Policy. 3(1):6-15.

Sacco, Vincent. (2005). When Crime Waves. London: Sage.

Sanders, Clinton and Eleanor Lyon. (1995). "Repetitive Retribution: Media Images and the Cultural Construction of Criminal Justice." in Cultural Criminology Jeff Ferrell and Clinton Sanders (Eds.). Boston: Northeastern Press.

Surette, Ray. (1998). Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Images and Realities. New York: West/Wadsworth.

Tonry, Michael. (2004). Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

 

 



Reading Lists (Forever Incomplete)

News Media Reading List

Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Reading List

Sociological Theory (still working on this one)

Videos

Robert McChesney: Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Part 1)

Robert McChesney: Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Part 2)

Robert McChesney: Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Part 3)

Robert McChesney: Talk at NYU on his book "Communication Revolution" (playlist, in six-parts)

Noam Chomsky: The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model

Noam Chomsky: Mass Media and Control (Part 1)

Noam Chomsky: Mass Media and Control (Part 2)

Constructing Public Opinion (agenda-setting)

Stuart Hall on Media [Re]Presentations

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity

Net Neutrality (websites and equal accessibility for consumers) from the Free Press

Bill Moyers: Media and Democracy and the National Conference on Media (2008)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (media and social construction of "others")

Bill Moyers' Interview with Andrew Bacevich (Professor of International Relations at Boston University) on U.S. Imperialism

Video (C-Span): CIA Director Confronted about Drug Laundering by former Los Angeles Narcotics Officer

Short Articles and Other Writings

On the Myth of Professional Neutrality (Bob Jensen)