Constructing Crime

, by Potter, Gary W.; Kappeler, Victor E.

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ISBN: 9781577664468 | 1577664469
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Copyright: 4/10/2006

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Preface

vii

Introduction

(18)

Part I Making News

(74)

1 Enter Moral Panics

(8)

Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda

2 Media Constructions of Crime

(13)

Vincent F. Sacco

3 Crime Waves as Ideology

(17)

Mark Fishman

4 Fear and Loathing on Reality Television: An Analysis of America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries

(11)

Gray Cavender & Lisa Bond-Maupin

5 State Managers, Intellectuals, and the Media: A Content Analysis of Ideology in Experts' Quotes in Feature Newspaper Articles on Crime

(23)

Michael Welch, Melissa Fenwick, & Meredith Roberts

Part II Constructing Crime Problems

(174)

6 The Gang Initiation Rite as a Motif in Contemporary Crime Discourse

(20)

Joel Best & Mary M. Hutchinson

7 The Presentation of Drugs in the News Media: The News Sources Involved in the Construction of Social Problems

115

(28)

Steven Chermak

8 The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers against Drunk Drivers and Social Control in the 1980's

143

(25)

Craig Reinarman

9 Coverage of Domestic Violence Fatalities by Newspapers in Washington State

168

(22)

Cathy Ferrand Bullock & Jason Cubert

10 The Media Construction of Stalking Stereotypes

190

(23)

Brian H. Spitzberg & Michelle Cadiz

11 The Role of Television News in the Construction of School Violence as a "Moral Panic"

213

(16)

Donna Killingbeck

12 Constructing "Crime": Media Coverage of Individual and Organizational Wrongdoing

229

(19)

William S. Lofquist

13 "Road Warriors" on "Hair-Trigger Highways": Cultural Resources and the Media's Construction of the 1987 Freeway Shootings Problem

248

(19)

Joel Best

Part III Effects of Constructing Crime

267

(100)

14 Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects

269

(19)

Ted Chiricos, Sarah Eschholz, & Marc Gertz

15 Perceived Fears: The Reporting Patterns of Juvenile Homicide in Chicago Newspapers

288

(25)

John G. Boulahanis & Martha J. Heltsley

16 "All the News That's Fit to Print": A Content Analysis of the Correctional Debate in the New York Times

313

(18)

Michael Welch, Lisa Weber, & Walter Edwards

17 Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media

331

(14)

Craig Reinarman & Ceres Duskin

18 Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime

345

(22)

Ronald Weitzer & Charis E. Kubrin

Epilogue

367

(12)

Index

379

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