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Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues

Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues

Author(s): Allen Copenhaver , Andrew Denney

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2023

Pages: 376

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$100.00 USD

ISBN 9798765748756

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Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues offers an in-depth discussion of contemporary crime and media issues. Specifically, this book is the first of its kind to examine crime and media issues from a modern and approachable standpoint. Moreover, this book heavily focuses on how various forms of media interact with the three components of the criminal justice system (e.g., law enforcement, courts, and corrections).

Topics include:

  • Crime Construction and Real-World Effects
  • Crime Perceptions and Fear of Crime
  • Dramatization
  • Politics, Media, Crime, and Policy
  • “Fake News,” Crime, and Misinformation
  • Police Violence and Media
  • Media Trials and the Courts
  • Corrections and the Media: Information Presentation, Entertainment, and Public Perceptions
  • Social Media and User-Generated Crime
  • Sex Crimes and the Media
  • Violent Video Games and Crime
  • Making Sense of Media and Crime in the 21st Century
Allen Copenhaver

Allen Copenhaver is an Assistant Professor of criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University.  He conducts research on violent video games, intersections between law enforcement and those on the autism spectrum, and various other areas of research.

Andrew Denney

Andrew S. Denney is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and previously was a tenured Associate Professor at Loyola University New Orleans. His research expertise is in institutional and community corrections, reentry issues, faith-based programming, and sexual deviance. To date, he has published 23 peer-reviewed academic journal articles related to his expertise.

Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues offers an in-depth discussion of contemporary crime and media issues. Specifically, this book is the first of its kind to examine crime and media issues from a modern and approachable standpoint. Moreover, this book heavily focuses on how various forms of media interact with the three components of the criminal justice system (e.g., law enforcement, courts, and corrections).

Topics include:

  • Crime Construction and Real-World Effects
  • Crime Perceptions and Fear of Crime
  • Dramatization
  • Politics, Media, Crime, and Policy
  • “Fake News,” Crime, and Misinformation
  • Police Violence and Media
  • Media Trials and the Courts
  • Corrections and the Media: Information Presentation, Entertainment, and Public Perceptions
  • Social Media and User-Generated Crime
  • Sex Crimes and the Media
  • Violent Video Games and Crime
  • Making Sense of Media and Crime in the 21st Century

Allen Copenhaver
Allen Copenhaver

Allen Copenhaver is an Assistant Professor of criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University.  He conducts research on violent video games, intersections between law enforcement and those on the autism spectrum, and various other areas of research.

Andrew Denney
Andrew Denney

Andrew S. Denney is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and previously was a tenured Associate Professor at Loyola University New Orleans. His research expertise is in institutional and community corrections, reentry issues, faith-based programming, and sexual deviance. To date, he has published 23 peer-reviewed academic journal articles related to his expertise.