News, Crime and Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Content -- Organisation -- Figures and Tables -- Table 1.1: News Criteria from Galtung and Ruge ( 1965) -- Table 1.2: British Values from Chibnall ( 1977) -- Figure 1 -- Figure 2 -- Table 6.1 Gender Value Grids: Guide to Dominant Model -- 1. Criminological Crises -- Criminology -- Critical Shifts -- Feminist Criminology -- Transgressing Criminology: Towards Inter- disciplinary Research -- Normalisation -- Reportage and Representation -- News Values -- Journalism -- Thatcherism -- 2. Disorderly Publics: Race in the Inner Cities -- Roots of Disorder -- Race in Britain -- Race and the Media -- Race and the Media during Thatcherism -- Media and Method: Broadwater Farm -- Racial Stereotypes -- News Values -- Comment -- 3. Public Order: Criminal Class -- Causes of Disorder -- Class, Community and Conflict -- The Miners' Strike 1984-85 -- Terror on the Terraces -- Comment -- 4. High Jinks: Youth, Crime and Community -- Youth Culture, Crime and Class -- New Age Travellers -- Raves -- Taking the Streets -- 'The devil himself couldn't have made a better job of raising two fiends (Sun, 25.11.93) -- Drugs -- Protest -- Comment -- 5. Beggars Not Choosers -- An Englishman's Home -- Homelessness and the Media -- Housing Advice -- Media, Myths and the 'Real' Issues of Homelessness -- Single and Homeless in Leeds -- Lone Parents in Leeds -- Press Ideology -- Comment -- 6. Journalism, Justice, Gender and Violence -- Handbagged -- The Power to Represent -- Sex'n'Violence in the News -- Sex and Violence and Feminism -- News about Intimate Killing: Ideology About Gender -- Mercy for the Killer who Bit Back -- Evaluating Blame -- Comment -- 7. Straightening Out Sex -- Body Talk -- Prostitution: Sex for Sale -- Sectioning Homosexuality -- Keeping it in the Family -- Pornography and the Mass Media -- Effects and Ethics -- Comment.

8. News Cultures -- Reportage -- British News at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Sex and Violence -- Media, Meaning, Method -- Criminalised Cultures -- News, Criminology and Culture -- Concluding Notes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Appendix -- Table 1: Selected Cases and Accounts -- Table 2: Exemplars of Value Assessment Process -- Table 3: Gender Evaluation Process -- Figure 3: Perpetrator/Victim/Law: Evaluations as % of All Agency -- Figure 4:Explanation Type and Value: Gendered Discourses -- Bibliography -- Index -- Adam Smith Institute, 185 -- Adler, F., Sisters in Crime, 14 -- advertising -- 32 -- 192 -- 212n -- and sexuality, 145 -- and sexuality, 164 -- alienation 62 -- Aliens Restriction Immigration Act 32 -- anorexia nervosa -- 199 -- 212n -- Arnold, Matthew, Culture and Anarchy 80 -- Australia, licensed brothels 169 -- Barthes, R. -- 189 -- Image, Media, Text, 194 -- BBC -- 6 -- 185 -- radio broadcasting, 65 -- BBC2, Who Killed the Family [1995] 173 -- Beat generation [1950s] 89 -- Beer Act [1872] 67 -- beggars -- 112 -- 113 -- 119-20 -- 130 -- linked with crime, 120-1 -- Bell, Stuart, MP 176 -- Bella 146 -- Betts, Leah 100-2 -- biologism -- Darwinian, 10-11 -- and female criminology, 13-14 -- and female criminology, 15 -- Birmingham -- campaign against prostitution, 169 -- comparison of reports, 39 -- comparison of reports, 40-142 -- Handsworth riots, 36 -- Handsworth riots, 38 -- Handsworth riots, 39 -- Birmingham Evening Mail 34 -- black communities -- crime statistics, 58 -- and street riots, 36-8 -- employment, 33 -- exclusion from working class, 30 -- black deviance 16 -- black identity -- 50-1 -- 52 -- criminalised, 30 -- criminalised, 38-9 -- criminalised, 54 -- criminalised, 187 -- criminalised, 195-6.

Blair, A., Prime Minister -- 58 -- and problem of youth cultures, 109-10 -- Blakelock, P.C., murder 42 -- blame attribution -- 45 -- 163 -- 196 -- 212n -- evaluation of, 153-60 -- gender values, 158 159 -- gender values, 215-16 -- in domestic killings, 152-3 -- body, and discourse of power 165-6 -- Bottomley, Virginia 119 -- Bourdieu, Pierre -- 29 -- 204 -- Boycott, Rosie, editor of Express 197-8 -- Boyson, Rhodes, MP 173 -- Brent Spar 105 -- Brighton Evening Argus 88 -- Bristol Evening Post 36 -- Bristol, St Pauls riots -- 36-7 -- 86 -- Brixton, street disorder -- 36 -- 37 -- Broadwater Farm estate [Tottenham] -- press coverage, 42-51 -- riots, 42-3 -- riots, 46 -- brothels, controls on 168 -- Brownmiller, S., Against Our Will 145 -- Bulger, James, abduction and murder 99-100 -- Calvey, Linda, murder case -- 149 -- 150 -- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [CND] 89 -- Campbell, Bea -- 97-8 -- 108-9 -- Unofficial Secrets, 176 -- Campbell, Duncan 100 -- Canada, controls on pornography 183 -- Caphouse Colliery Museum -- 83 -- 196 -- capital, control over media -- 107 -- 141 -- capitalism -- and exploitation of sex, 167 -- and power relations, 142 -- global, 27 -- car crime, on council estates 96-7 -- Cardiff, street riots 96 -- Care in the Community -- 115 -- 119 -- Cathy Come Home [1966] 112-13 -- censorship -- 173 -- 199 -- of pornography, 180 -- of videos, 100 -- centralisation, under Thatcherism -- 5 -- 28 -- 190 -- Channel Four -- Dispatches programme [ -- Dispatches programme [ 183 -- News, 37 -- News, 37 -- News, 84 -- News, 84 -- Chelsea football fans 80 -- Chibnall, S. -- 27 -- 31 -- 48 -- 202 -- 203 -- British values, 23-4 -- British values, 24 93 -- British values, 153-4 -- child prostitution 200 -- child sexual abuse -- 5 -- 175-8 -- 184 -- 199 -- Child Support Agency [CSA] -- 175.

and housing eligibility criteria, 126 -- children, and eligibility for housing 128 -- Chomsky, N. -- 25 -- 26 -- 188 -- Christian fundamentalism 165 -- civil rights movement, American black -- 34 -- 52 -- 90 -- class -- journalists' profile, 102 -- and joy-riding, 97-8 -- and masculinity, 98 -- and model of mass audience, 185-6 -- and youth cultures, 88 -- and youth cultures, 108-11 -- class consciousness 65-6 -- class differentiation 60 -- class identity, reconstruction of 82-3 -- class values -- 11-12 -- 130-1 -- classless society, as middle class 85 -- Cleveland, child abuse cases [1987] 176 -- clubs, all-night 100 -- Cohen, S. -- 86 -- 88-9 -- 108 -- collective public 60 -- Commission for Racial Equality 59 -- communications, between politicians and people -- 29 -- 204 -- community 63-4 -- conflict -- and control, 69-70 -- and control, 75 -- as news value, 143-4 -- as news value, 191-2 -- culture of 63-8 -- conflict model -- 28 -- 55 -- and class, 74-5 -- and New Age Travellers, 92 -- of race relations, 56 -- consensus -- 5 -- 191 -- and law and order, 29 -- consent, age of -- 172-3 -- 175 -- conservatism, moral -- 4-5 -- 28 -- 35 -- 165 -- conservatism, political 139-40 -- Conservative Party -- back to basics campaign,, 114 -- back to basics campaign,, 124 -- back to basics campaign,, 137 -- and control of media, 184-5 -- and control of media, 195 -- and pornography laws, 182-3 -- and portrayal of homeless, 136-7 -- and portrayal of homeless, 197 -- heterosexual agenda, 175 -- press support for, 130-1 -- sex scandals, 200 -- Contagious Diseases Act [1864] -- 168 -- 171 -- Coulter, J., on miners' strike -- 60 -- 71 -- 72 -- council estates, riots on -- 87 -- 108 -- council housing, sale of -- 115 -- 137 -- 210n -- crime -- data, 10 -- and football hooliganism, 82 -- and masculinity, 16 -- and masculinity, 98.

and moral boundaries, 194-5 -- as deviance, 16 -- as value concept, 201 -- as value concept, 214 -- definitions, 8 -- definitions, 15-16 -- definitions, 200-1 -- ethnic statistics, 58 -- fear of, 206n -- fear of, 207n -- linked with homelessness, 120-1 -- linked with race, 35 -- linked with race, 187 -- linked with race, 195-6 -- white-collar, 10 -- crime news -- 10 -- 187 -- crime, organised, and drug dealing at raves 95 -- Criminal Justice Act [1994] 17 -- criminal justice system -- 16 -- 56 -- Criminal Law Amendment Act [1885] 175 -- criminology -- 3 -- 8-9 -- and justice, 16 -- and social and cultural factors, 11 -- and social and cultural factors, 200-2 -- biologism of traditional, 11 -- feminist, 12-15 -- feminist, 140 -- inter-disciplinary research on, 15-17 -- Victorian, 10 -- crowds -- behaviour of, 61-3 -- female [Beatlemania], 209n -- cultural analysts, interest in deviancy 17 -- cultural expectations -- 51 -- 53 -- cultural relativism 201 -- cultural values -- 23-4 -- 24 -- anarchy of Travellers contrasted with, 92 -- anarchy of Travellers contrasted with, 93 -- and media text choices, 106-7 -- sexual, 171-2 -- Cumberbatch, G. -- 33 -- 38-9 -- 183 -- curfews 98-9 -- Daily Express -- on begging, 114 -- on begging, 120 -- on begging, 130 -- on Manchester airport protest, 105 -- on Manchester airport protest, 106 -- on miners' strike,, 69 -- on Mods and Rockers, 88 -- on mortgages, 129 -- Rosie Boycott 's editorship, 197-8 -- Daily Mail -- on begging, 120 -- naming of Stephen Lawrence suspects, 57 -- on homeless, 114 -- on homeless, 121 -- on homeless, 123 -- on homeless, 124 -- on immigration, 34 -- on West case, 178 -- Daily Mirror -- 61 -- Brent Spar story, 105 -- Handsworth photograph, 39 -- on football, 81 -- on homeless, 120 -- on homeless, 123 -- on Leah Betts, 100.

on Leah Betts, 102.

Investigates media reporting of crime, and the essentially conservative political culture which shapes our views on deviancy, crime and criminality.

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