Discipline or Desubordination? Changing Media Images of Crime.

Author: Reiner, Robert / Livingstone, Sonia
Published: London, 1997
Source: http://www.lse.ac.uk [23.09.2003].

Abstract

Changes in mass media representations of crime and criminal justice and their different interpretations are the topics of this article. The authors show that interactions take place between changing media representations and current patterns of criminality and criminal justice.

Reiner, Robert

ROBERT REINER is Professor of Criminology in the Law Department, London School of Economics. He was formerly Reader in Criminology at the University of Bristol, and at Brunel University. He has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University (1967), an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics (1968), a PhD in Sociology from Bristol University (1976), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from City University, London (1985). He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6. His current research is a study financed by the Economic and Social Research Council analysing changing media representations of crime and criminal justice since the Second World War.

Publications: The Blue-Coated Worker (1978), The Politics of the Police (1985), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (1994)

Livingstone, Sonia

Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her teaching and research activities centre on media audiences, particularly audience response to television genres (talk shows, soap opera, crime media). Her publications include "Making Sense of Television" (2nd edition, Routledge, 1998), "The Handbook of New Media" (edited with Leah Lievrouw; Sage, 2002), and "Young People and New Media" (Sage, 2002)