This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology - that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections. Section one considers the intersection of crime and capitalism in a range of contemporary cultural texts. Section two examines how various power systems influence the operation of the media in its role of reporting crime and holding the powerful to account. Section three considers how texts in a variety of formats are used to conduct politics, communicate politics and enact political decision making.

Autorentext

Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK.

Alan Grattan is Senior Lecturer and teaches on the Criminology degree at the University of Winchester, UK.

Marcus Leaning is Professor of Digital Media Education and teaches on the BA Media and Communications degree at the University of Winchester, UK.

Paul Manning is retired but was Reader in Media Sociology at the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester, UK.

Inhalt
1. Introduction2. 'Grabbing and Keeping': DeadwoodThe Origin of Specie

3. 'Rosie's Room' and 'Bullet's Phone': The Commodification of the Lost Girl in The Killing and Its Paratexts
4. Noir Tourism and the Black Dahlia Murder
5. Reporting Crime and Capitalism: Techniques of Neutralisation in a Corpus of Corporate Fraud News
6. Think Tanks, News Sources and Neo-liberal News Discourse: Off-shoring Power and Influence
7. Friends in High Places: Sexual Abuse, Power and the Corruptions of Jimmy Savile
8. From Chopping Trees to Destroying Capitalism: A Social Etymology of Hacking
9. The Loyalist Community of Northern Ireland: From Cultural Defenders to Subcultural Offenders? A Cultural Criminology Exploration
10. Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process
11. Save the Troll! UK Social Media Legislation and the Attack on Freedom of Speech