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1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Turn on, tune in, slop out / Paul Mason -- The function of fiction for a punitive public / Anna King and Shadd Maruna -- Red tops, populists and the irresistible rise of the public voices(s) / Mick Ryan -- Crime sound bites: a view from both sides of the microphone / Enver Solomon -- What works in changing public attitudes to prison: lessons from rethinking crime and punishment / Rob Allen -- Delivering death: capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media / Chris Greer -- 'Buried alive': representations of the separate system in Victorian England / Helen Johnston -- Undermining the simplicities: the films of Rex Bloomstein / Jamie Bennett -- Creating a stir? Prisons, popular media and the power to reform / Yvonne Jewkes -- 'The violence of images: inside the prison TV drama Oz / Brian Jarvis -- The anti-heroines of Holloway: the prison films of Joan Henry and J. Lee Thompson / Steve Chibnall -- Relocating Hollywood's prison film discourse / Paul Mason -- Future punishment in American science fiction films / Mike Nellis. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Punishment.
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Punishment. |
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Prisons.
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Prisons. |
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Corrections.
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Corrections. |
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Mass media and criminal justice.
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Mass media and criminal justice. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mason, Paul, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Captured by the media. Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, ©2006 1843921456 (DLC) 2006279999 (OCoLC)60838308 |
| ISBN |
9781134008759 (electronic book) |
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1134008759 (electronic book) |
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9781843925767 (electronic book) |
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1843925761 (electronic book) |
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1843921456 |
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9781843921455 |
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1843921448 |
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9781843921448 |
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