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News Media, Victims and Crime
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In this article, a thorough account of victimisation across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender is provided, along with a detailed account of the types of victimization.Abstract:
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Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the intersection of feminism and victim politics in Neoliberal times, and the role of the victim subject in the politics of Ressentiment in the Neoliberal Times.
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DECONSTRUCTING VICTIM AND OFFENDER IDENTITES IN DISCOURSES ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Hierarchies, Blame and the Good/Evil Dialectic
TL;DR: The authors argue that discourses on "blame" and the polarized notions of "innocence" and "guilt" inform respective hierarchies of victimhood and offending concerning "legitimate" victim and offender status.
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What Makes A Homicide Newsworthy?UK National Tabloid Newspaper Journalists Tell All
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the criteria that determine the newsworthiness of a crime and found that, with certain exceptions, homicides involving "perfect" victims, statistically deviant features, killers on the run, sensational elements and/or serial killers will almost always be newsworthy, while those involving "undeserving" victims in commonplace circumstances would almost always not.
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Media justice: Madeleine McCann, intermediatization and ‘trial by media’ in the British press
Chris Greer,Eugene McLaughlin +1 more
TL;DR: Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on 3 May 2007 from a holiday apartment in Portugal over five years and multiple investigations that failed to solve this abducted child case as mentioned in this paper.
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Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
TL;DR: The Second Edition of the first edition as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the history of a moral panic and the origins of social control, including the production of news and the politics of mugging.
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Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order (2nd ed.)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ways in which changes of operational procedure and priority on the part of the police were at least partly responsible for this phenomenon, as concern that mugging needed to be cracked down on led to more arrests and more offences being classified as muggings.
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The Ideal Victim
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a lecture on the topic "Society and the victim" where they asked participants to write down a few words from their personal histories as a victim, not for my use but for their own.
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The Culture of High Crime Societies
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of cultural adaptation is developed to explain the emergence of new strategies of crime control in the UK and USA, arguing that the political and policy shifts of recent years have been conditioned by prior changes that have occurred at the level of social structures and cultural sensibilities.
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Media made criminality: The representation of crime in the mass media
TL;DR: The Handbook of Criminology as discussed by the authors is the most comprehensive and authoritative single volume guide to the subject of criminology, combining masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive references to aid further research.