Overview
- Offers critical reflections on the media and their representations of ethnicity and ‘race’ in relation to crime, criminals and victims, and their impact on criminal justice policies, procedures and practices
- Highlights the process of racialised myth construction or misrepresentation of criminals and victims and the ways in which this interacts with the criminal justice system
- Critically examines a number of contemporary and highly topical case studies including: the Australian border controls and Rohingya refugee crisis, the European refugee crisis, and the Trollhättan Attack in Sweden, to name a few
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Reviews
“Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting and Waqas Tufall deserve applause for producing such a diverse, rich and timely collection. It will prove invaluable to those researching crime and the media, and the social dynamics and structures of racial power and racism. With extraordinary foresight, the book also offers a valuable resource for making sense of today’s turbulent world.” (Jamie Bennett, Border Criminologies, law.ox.ac.uk, February 5, 2021)
“This book is a good read for journalism students who are of the minority, this can help further knowledge about media’s coverage of minorities.” (Morgan Jenkins, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2020)
“This powerful collection demonstrates how, in a neoliberal decentralised capitalist economic system, news organisations generate profits through racist, misleading, and often non-factual news, which contributes to the fabrication of moral panics and folk devils. The chapters in this collection are mostly supported by empirical studies and are often theoretically informed, which makes it an essential resource for criminologists exploring the connection between media, crime, and racism.” (The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. 58 (4), 2019)
“Media, Crime and Racism, offers engaged scholarship that explores the complex processes through which the media racialises crime, and criminalises race, and the impact this has. … Media, Crime and Racism is a very important book that encourages the reader to constantly make links between different communities across international contexts … .” (Sophia Siddiqui, Race & Class, Vol. 61 (1), July-September, 2019)
“Media, Crime and Racism is a seminal contribution to this field of criminology, examining as it does the nexus between media and crime through the lens of racism. … the book might be considered an important contribution towards theperformative turn in criminology.” (Gabriella Szabó, Crime Media Culture, March 19, 2019)
“This volume was published within the series Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. … This edited collection represents an excellent starting point for researchers and both undergraduates and postgraduates in media studies, criminology, sociology, gender studies, and related academic fields.” (Antje Deckert, The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, October, 10, 2018)
“The book is suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students in sociology and criminology studies. It is a timely update on media and crime that offers insightful analysis of traditional as well as digital media. Given that the theoretical foundation is illustrated by numerous case studies … .” (Sara Salman, Journal of Sociology, July, 2018) “This book will anger and inspire you, in equal measure. Documenting the complex relations between crime, media and racism across diverse national contexts, media platforms and marginalised populations, it presents empirically rich accounts of the systemic and everyday processes of racialisation across the globe. Offering astute insights into the relations between media and state, economic and social power, and gender, class and race, it provides a model of politically engaged scholarship. Media, Crime and Racism is an important and authoritative contribution to the field.” (Professor Greg Noble, Western Sydney University, Australia)
“In the age of post-truth, a collection which tackles the perennial issues of race and crime in the media is a welcome relief from the torrents of distortions and deception. In bringing together a collection of scholars, that offer empirical evidence from a number of contexts, but share an incisive and critical edge in relation to the issues of racism and the media, the editors are to be congratulated in setting a standard for future research in this area.” (Professor Virinder Kalra, University of Warwick, UK)
“Engaged scholarship that shows how the racialisation of crime and the manipulation of racism are part of the DNA of mainstream culture. Media, Crime and Racism demands an end to racist framing and a transformation in our ways of seeing. At last a book that places the bordered thinking of popular culture at the centre of a discussion of the structural processes that, in giving permission to hate, do so much damage to community relations.” (Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race Relations)
“This dynamic, high-quality collection deepens our understandings of how using racialization as a concept can illuminate the connections between how crime, race and different kinds of borders are made real.” (Professor Steve Garner, Birmingham City University, UK)
“This exciting collection brings together work from a new generation of scholars, presenting ways of thinking that can meet the challenges of state racisms ramped up through securitisation and bordering and popular racisms refashioned as Islamophobia and xenoracisms. Read this to witness the next phase of scholar-activism against racist dehumanisation.” (Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya of the University of East London)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media, Crime and Racism
Editors: Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting, Waqas Tufail
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71776-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10108-4Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71776-0Published: 06 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 391
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Media and Communication, Media Sociology, Ethnicity Studies