Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES)

New Book Published on Media and Crime

media and crime bookKatrina Clifford and Rob White have published a new book titled Media and Crime: Content, Context and Consequence.

In this book, the authors combine their skills and expertise in journalism, media studies, and criminology to critically interrogate the relationship between media and crime.

The book encourages readers to examine the intricacies and complexities of the media–crime nexus in the contemporary mediascape. It addresses ‘media’ in its traditional and emerging forms, and explores the ways in which police, courts and different groups engage with mediated representations of crime, risk, fear and vulnerability.

It also investigates the role that media plays in shaping perceptions of crime and criminality, and how media framing occurs in relation to debates about criminal justice and responses to crime.

In this book Clifford and White explore, in an accessible manner, the complexities of the relationship between crime, the media and justice. It offers a systematic, though by no means simplistic, analysis of this relationship, insisting that doing this demands both reflexivity and a willingness to expose and challenge the existing blind spots in media criminology. In so doing, this book establishes a coherent agenda for this area of analysis which not only fulfils its aims but also ensures that it will make a major contribution to the field. It is a must-read for all those making claims on this increasingly important intellectual space. You will not be disappointed by the challenges you will face in reading it. For this reason alone I highly recommend it. - Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, and conjoint Professor of Criminology, Monash University.

About the Authors

Dr Katrina Clifford is a Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and is a Senior Researcher with TILES. She is also a member of the University's Criminology, Law and Police Studies (CLP) Research Group.

Rob White is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and a Senior Researcher with TILES. Professor White has been collaborating with TILES for many years, and in particular, through the cross disciplinary cluster – the Criminology, Law and Police Studies (CLP) Research Group.

Published on: 10 Jul 2017