| Description |
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory and context -- 3 News values, newsworthiness and the construction of -- sex crime -- 4 Press representations of sex crime in Northern Ireland: -- an empirical analysis -- 5 Commercialism, conflict and culture -- 6 Consensus and controversy -- 7 Concerns in context -- 8 Responsibility and management -- 9 Conclusions -- Appendix I: Definitions of sex offences -- Appendix II: The recording of sex crime reports -- Appendix III: Details of sample newspapers -- Appendix IV: List of interviews References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Sex crime has become one of the most intense areas of public and political concern in recent decades. This book explores the complex influences that shape its construction in the press. Media representations give important cues as to how we should perceive the nature and extent of sex crime, how we should think and feel about it, how we should respond to it, and the measures that might be taken to reduce risk. Understanding the media construction of sex crime is central to understanding its meaning and place in our everyday lives. Unlike much of the existing research, this book explores the construction of sex crime at every stage of the news production process. It then locates the findings within a wider context of cultural, economic and political change in late modernity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex offenders -- Press coverage.
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Sex crimes -- Press coverage.
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Sex crimes -- Press coverage -- Great Britain.
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Sex crimes -- Press coverage -- Northern Ireland.
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Sex offenders -- Northern Ireland.
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Ireland -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092562 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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| LC no. |
2004272225 |
| ISBN |
1843920042 hardback |
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