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.
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