Media, Crime and Racism
Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and crim
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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN CRIME, MEDIA AND CULTURE
Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture Series Editors Michelle Brown Department of Sociology University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA Eamonn Carrabine Department of Sociology University of Essex Colchester, UK “This book will anger and inspire you, in equal measure. Documenting the complex relations between crime, media and racism across diverse national contexts, media platforms and marginalised populations, it presents empirically rich accounts of the systemic and everyday processes of racialisation across the globe. Offering astute insights into the relations between media and state, economic and social power, and gender, class and race, it provides a model of politically engaged scholarship. Media, Crime and Racism is an important and authoritative contribution to the field.” —Professor Greg Noble, Western Sydney University, Australia “In the age of post-truth, a collection which tackles the perennial issues of race and crime in the media is a welcome relief from the torrents of distortions and deception. In bringing together a collection of scholars who offer empirical evidence from a number of contexts, but share an incisive and critical edge in relation to the issues of racism and the media, the editors are to be congratulated in setting a standard for future research in this area.” —Professor Virinder Kalra, University of Warwick, UK “Engaged scholarship that shows how the racialisation of crime and the manipulation of racism are part of the DNA of mainstream culture. Media, Crime and Racism demands an end to racist framing and a transformation in our ways of seeing. At last a book that places the bordered thinking of popular culture at the centre of a discussion of the structural processes that, in giving permission to hate, do so much damage to community relations.” —Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race Relations
This series aims to publish high quality interdisciplinary scholarship for research into crime, media and culture. As images of crime, harm and punishment proliferate across new and old media there is a growing recognition that criminology needs to rethink its relations with the ascendant power of spectacle. This international book series aims to break down the often rigid and increasingly hardened boundaries of mainstream criminology, media and communication studies, and cultural studies. In a late modern world where reality TV takes viewers into cop cars and carceral spaces, game shows routinely feature shame and suffering, teenagers post ‘happy slapping’ videos on YouTube, both cyber bullying and ‘justice for’ campaigns are mainstays of social media, and insurrectionist groups compile footage of suicide bomb attacks for circulation on the Internet, it is clear that images of crime and control play a powerful role in shaping social practices. It is vital then that we become versed in the diverse ways that crime and punishment are represented in an era of global interconnectedness, not least since the very reach of global media networks
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