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Oxford The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime Media and Popular Culture 3-volume set 2018 Edition by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown
Crime and punishment fascinate. Overwhelming in their media dominance, they present us with our most popular television programs, films, novels, art works, video games, podcasts, social media streams and hashtags. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crime, Media and Popular Culture, a massive and unprecedented undertaking, offers a foundational space for understanding the cultural life and imaginative force and power of crime and punishment. Across five areas foundational to the study of crime and media, leading scholars from five continents engage cutting edge scholarship in order to provide definitive overviews of over 120 topics. In the context of an unprecedented global proliferation in the production of images, they take up the perennial and emergent problems of crime's celebrity and fascination; stereotypes and innovations in portrayals of crime and criminals; and the logics of representation that follow police, courts, capital punishment, prisons, and legal systems across the world. They also engage new, timely, and historically overlooked categories of offense and their representations, including child sexualabuse, violence against women, and human trafficking. A series of entries on mediums and methods provide a much needed set of critical approaches at a historical moment when doing media and visual research is a daunting, formidable undertaking. This is also a volume that stretches our understanding of conventional categories of crime representation. One example of this is homicide, where entries include work on the ever-popular serial killer but also extend to filicide, infanticide, school shootings, aboriginal deaths in custody, lynchings, terrorism and genocide. Readers will be will be hard-pressed to find a convention, trope, or genre of crime representation that is not, in some way, both present and enlarged. From film noir topolice procedurals, courtroom dramas and comedies to comic books, crime news to true crime and reality TV, gaming to sexting, it is covered in this encyclopedia. Table of contents : - Historical1. The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence2. Cultural Representations of 19th-Century Prostitution 3. Cultural Representations of Torture4. Folk Devils and Folk Heroes: the Janus face of the robber in popular culture5. Framing Terrorism 6. Gangsters and Genre 7. Historical Approaches to the Study of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture8. Historical Representations of Crime and the Criminal 9. Infanticide in 19th-century England10. Moral Panics 11. Music of the 1960s and Social Justice: Masterpieces of American Protest Songs and Why They Matter in the Trump Era 12. Organized Crime Mythologies13. The (In)visibility of Race in 20th-Century Crime Films14. True Crime Reporting in Early Modern England15. Vengeance in Popular CultureAspects of the criminal justice system1. A Genre Study of Prosecutors and Criminal Defense Lawyers in American Movies and Television 2. American Lawyer and Courtroom Comedies3. American Trial Films and the Popular Culture of Law 4. Biplanes, Satellites, and Drones: A High Resolution History of Eyes in the Sky 5. Capital Punishment, Closure, and Media 6. Culture of Punishment in the USA7. False Confessions in Popular Culture8. Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Justice in Popular Culture 9. Guilt or Innocence: Lessons About the Legal Process in American Courtroom Films10. Human Trafficking and the Media in the United States11. Images of Alternative Justice 12. Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory13. Juries in Film and Television14. Lawyers and Courts in French Popular Culture15. Miscarriages of Justice16. Military Justice in Film 17. Nazi Justice in Popular Legal Culture 18. Prison Life and Popular Culture19. Representations of Criminal Justice and Its Institutions20. Security and Surveillance in Film21. Solitary Confinement in Popular Culture22. Television Judge Shows23. Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Popular Culture in the Post-9/11 Context24. The "CSI Effect"25. The Legal System in German Popular Culture26. The Police, Media, and Popular Culture in the USA27. Trials for Genocide and War Crime in Popular Culture Aspects of criminology1. Copycat Crime2. Corpses, Popular Culture, and Forensic Science 3. Crime and Celebrity 4. Crime and Masculinity in Popular Culture5. Crime and Visual Media in Brazil6. Crimesploitation7. Criminal Underworlds8. Cultural Criminology9. Dark Tourism10. Dark Tourism, Penal Landscapes, and Criminological Inquiry11. Feminist Criminology and the Visual 12. Foucault and the Visual Reconstitution of Criminological Knowledge13. Gothic Criminology 14. Green Criminology, Culture, and Cinema15. Ideology in the Crime Genre16. Narrative Criminology: Crime as Produced by and Re-Lived Through Narratives 17. Neighborhood Context and Media Representations of Crime18. Popular Criminology 19. Psychopathy and the Media20. Street Cultures 21. Transgressive Imaginations 22. Visual Criminology23. Visual Representations of Genocide24. Visuality and Criminology 25. White Collar Crime in Popular Culture26. Witnessing and Victimhood27. Wound CultureOffenses1. Abortion in American Film since 20012. Bank Robbery in Popular Culture3. Car Crimes and the Cultural Imagination 4. Clergy Sexual Abuse and the Media5. Drugs and Popular Culture 6. Fakes and Forgeries in Art, and the More Specific Term "Art Fraud": A Criminological Perspective 7. Filicide in Australian Media and Culture 8. Graffiti9. Homicide in Television Drama Series 10. Journalistic Depictions of Violence against Women in India11. Journalistic Depictions of Violence against Women in Mexico12. Media Representations of Domestic Violence13. Moral Regulation and Media Representations of the Female Body14. Offensive Language Crimes in Law, Media, and Popular Culture15. Organized Child Sexual Abuse in the Media16. Pornification and the Mainstreaming of Sex 17. Pussy Riot and the Politics of Resistance in Contemporary Russia18. Representations of Public Sex in Crime, Media, and Popular Culture19. Resistance in Popular Culture20. School Shootings in the Media21. Serial Killing and Representation22. Sex Crime and the Media 23. Sexting24. Social Media, Vigilantism, and Indigenous People in Australia 25. The Criminalization of Homosexuality in Popular Cinema 26. The Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles and Aboriginal Riots27. The Global Traffic in Looted Cultural ObjectsMediums1. A Critical Introduction to Arts Behind Bars2. Big Data and Visuality3. Content Analysis in the Study of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture4. Crime Dramas as Social Science Fiction 5. Crime Fiction6. Crime Films7. Crime News in Newspapers8. Crime News on TV9. Crime, Justice, and Anglo-American Comics 10. Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of Crime in Film and on Television 11. Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of Crime in Literature12. Documentaries about Crime and Criminal Justice13. Experimental Design in the Study of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture14. Feminist Themes in Television Crime Dramas 15. Film Noir16. Methodological Approaches to Studying Crime and Popular Culture in New Media17. News Media and African Genocide18. Nordic Noir19. Online Crime 20. Police Dramas on Television21. Reality TV Crime Programs22. Spatialization and Carceral Geographies23. Sports Crime and Popular Culture24. Survey Research and the Study of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture25. Video Gaming, Crime, and Popular Culture26. Violence, Media Effects, and Criminology