Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century

Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK.  Alan Grattan is Senior Lecturer and teaches on the Criminology degree at the University of Winchester, UK. Marcus Leaning is Professor of Digital Media Education and teaches on the BA Media and Communications degree at the University of Winchester, UK.  Paul Manning is retired but was Reader in Media Sociology at the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2 ‘Grabbing and Keeping’: Deadwood—The Origin of Specie.- 3. ‘Rosie’s Room’ and ‘Bullet’s Phone’: The Commodification of the Lost Girl in The Killing and Its Paratexts.- 4. Noir Tourism and the Black Dahlia Murder.- 5. Reporting Crime and Capitalism: Techniques of Neutralisation in a Corpus of Corporate Fraud News.- 6 Think Tanks, News Sources and Neo-liberal News Discourse: Off-shoring Power and Influence.- 7. Friends in High Places: Sexual Abuse, Power and the Corruptions of Jimmy Savile.- 8. From Chopping Trees to Destroying Capitalism: A Social Etymology of Hacking.- 9. The Loyalist Community of Northern Ireland: From Cultural Defenders to Subcultural Offenders? A Cultural Criminology Exploration.- 10. Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process.- 11. Save the Troll! UK Social Media Legislation and the Attack on Freedom of Speech.