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‘I'm Making a TV Programme Here!’: Reality TV'S Banged Up and Public Criminology
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The authors examines the TV series Banged Up and media reactions to it and argues that it served a wider public service purpose, or public criminology, than simply entertainment, and explores a number of other "experiments" and the crossover between those and reality TV.Abstract:
This article examines the TV series Banged Up and media reactions to it. In doing so it seeks to argue that it served a wider public service purpose, or public criminology, than simply entertainment. A number of other ‘experiments’ and the crossover between those and reality TV are also explored. The series was not universally admired and no attempt is made to hide this. In addition to engaging with theoretical matters the experience of one of the authors of being part of the programme is set out. (Authors' abstract)read more
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2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: For public sociology*
TL;DR: Comparing disciplines points to the umbilical chord that connects sociology to the world of publics, underlining sociology's particular investment in the defense of civil society, itself beleaguered by the encroachment of markets and states.
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Who's Afraid of Infotainment?:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors in Europe and the USA claim that commercialization and competition in broadcasting lead to a downgrading of political information and, even worse, to a crisis in political communication highlighted by the increasing reliance of television news media on entertainment formats.
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Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence
TL;DR: It is found that the intervention on average is more harmful to juveniles than doing nothing, and governments should institute rigorous programs of research to ensure that well-intentioned treatments do not cause harm to the citizens they pledge to protect.