Crime, Media and Culture

Greg Martin is Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published widely in criminology, law and sociology, and is author of Understanding Social Movements (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Secrecy, Law and Society (Routledge, 2015). He is an Editor of The Sociological Review, Associate Editor of Crime Media Culture and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Social Movement Studies.

• 1. Introduction 2. Studying crime and culture 3. Moral panics, folk devils and trial by media 4. Crime fear and the media 5. Law, crime and popular culture 6. Bad girls and evil little monsters 7. Serial killers 8. Surveillance, new media and protest policing 9. Organized crime, terrorism and high crimes of state 10. Conclusion

'Demonstrating an extraordinary command of the literature, Greg Martin offers a fresh perspective on the cultural criminology project that is destined to become a classic in the field. Crime, Media and Culture is nuanced in historical specificity, broad in scope, and as timely as the morning news. Superb.'Mark S. Hamm, Professor of Criminology, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Indiana State University, USA'Crime, Media and Culture offers a fresh and invigorating push at the boundaries of cultural criminology. Greg Martin's book expands understandings of crime-media relations by drawing upon the sheer diversity of contemporary media forms to engage with crime and criminal justice in contemporary society.'Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of York, UK'Crime, Media and Culture is a landmark achievement. It provides a thorough, creative and boundary-pushing look at a rapidly changing field of study. For anyone seeking a comprehensive and authoritative guide to it, this is an essential book. Bold, critical and ambitious it will serve as a foundational text. By incorporating classic scholarship with the latest cutting-edge interventions, it does more than simply cover or define a field, it takes criminology into areas it urgently needs to go.'Eamonn Carrabine, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK'Greg Martin’s Crime, Media and Culture sparkles with theoretical insights and provocative case studies. Comprehensively outlining the foundations of crime/media analysis, it also traces the latest trajectories in cultural criminology and associated fields like visual and narrative criminology; chronicling long-standing substantive concerns in crime/media research, it also explores contemporary issues surrounding digital surveillance, gendered images of crime, representations of terrorism, and more. For anyone interested in the interplay of crime and media, it’s required reading.'Jeff Ferrell, author of Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge