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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
'Those of us interested in how contemporary media construct criminal or deviant behaviour remain aware that this process has a long history. We are grateful for scholarly works which exhume history's implications for current preoccupations. Crime News in Modern Britain is one such work. For a decade the authors have analysed exhaustively local and national newspapers from the past. From that base they have compiled evidence about initial developments and subsequent changes in the authorship, sources and format of crime reporting. It is the first fully historical account of the nature of crime reporting over nearly two centuries.'
- Chas Critcher, Swansea University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kim Stevenson is a (founding) Director of SOLON, one of the General Editors of the SOLON series, Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice History, and an Associate Professor in Law at Plymouth University. Her research interests include interests include historical and contemporary aspects of the criminal law with particular emphasis on sexual offences, sexuality and violence, newspaper representations of crime and the criminal justice process.
Samantha Pegg is a Director of SOLON, and Senior Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include socio-legal constructions of criminality especially murder, media presentations and legal responses to child on child killing, Victorian responses to juvenile crime, Victorian constructs of insanity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crime News in Modern Britain
Book Subtitle: Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010
Authors: Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson, Samantha Pegg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137317971
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30359-1Published: 16 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33827-6Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31797-1Published: 16 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Journalism, Cultural History, Modern History, Media Studies