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"Media representations of policing are of crucial significance for both the legitimacy and the effective functioning of policing, and indeed social order more broadly. This pioneering ethnographic study is the first to analyse the interactions of creative personnel and the political-economic pressures that shape the production of fictional television stories about the police. It is a major contribution to the understanding of policing and the media, and will be of great value to criminology and to media sociology." - Robert Reiner, London School of Economics, UK
"Behind the scenes probe into how hit cop show The Bill was made and why. A deep analysis of process [which will be] fascinating for academics and interested public alike". - Tony Garnett, Film and Television producer and author, UK
"A timely, thoughtful and extremely well researched book on a genre that though fiction, nevertheless has deep
influence on how politicians, media, the public and even police themselves see their role. The fictional preoccupation with serious crime and higher status offenders as compared to the reality of more mundane offences and lower status offenders creates a loop of disinformation that has serious implications at a time of cuts and reorganisation of the whole justice system. This is a must read for police professionals, academics and crime writers alike." - Roger Graef OBE, Visiting Professor Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marianne Colbran is a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. Before becoming an academic, she was a scriptwriter and worked as a staff writer on the long running British police show, The Bill, for seven years and on the soap opera, Brookside, for two years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media Representations of Police and Crime
Book Subtitle: Shaping the Police Television Drama
Authors: Marianne Colbrana
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334725
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33471-8Published: 17 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46281-0Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33472-5Published: 20 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 253
Topics: Policing, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Screen Studies, Screenwriting, Media Research