Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media offers the very best in research that seeks to understand crime through the context of culture, cultural processes and media.
The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes from across the globe, and across a variety of disciplines. Books will offer fresh insights on a range of topics, including news reporting of crime; moral panics and trial by media; media and the police; crime in film; crime in fiction; crime in TV; crime and music; 'reality' crime shows; the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites; the ways media portrayals of crime influence government policy and lawmaking; the theoretical, conceptual and methodological underpinnings of cultural criminology.
Books in the series will be essential reading for those researching and studying criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.
The American City in Crime Films: Criminology and the Cinematic City
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Baranauskas
July 04, 2024
Analyzing crime movies set in Detroit, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, and the fictional Gotham City, this book examines the role that American cities play as characters in crime films. Furthering our awareness of how popular media shapes public understanding of crime and justice in American cities, this...
Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’
1st Edition
By Kenneth Dowler, Daniel Antonowicz
January 29, 2024
Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations. The book provides a history of corporate wrongdoing in film, from the silent film to ...
Criminologists in the Media: A Study of Newsmaking
1st Edition
By Mark Wood, Imogen Richards, Mary Iliadis
May 06, 2022
Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists’ contributions to news and social media discourse. Drawing on interviews with criminologists and a survey of 1,211 criminologists working in the US, the UK, Australia, New ...