I: Introduction; 1: Television Reality Crime Programs: Context and History; II: The Audience for Reality Crime Programs; 2: The Color of Crime: Perceptions of Caucasians' and African-Americans' Involvement in Crime; 3: Crimewatch UK: Women's Interpretations of Televised Violence; 4: Ratings and Reality: The Persistence of the Reality Crime Genre; III: Ideology and Social Control; 5: In The Shadow Of Shadows: Television Reality Crime Programming; 6: Cops: Television Policing as Policing Reality; 7: Armed With the Power of Television: Reality Crime Programming and the Reconstruction of Law and Order in the United States; IV: Crime, Criminals, and Victims; 8: The World of Crime According to Cops; 9: Mixed Messages: Images of Domestic Violence on Reality Television; 10: Crime Fighting by Television in the Netherlands; 11: Témoin N°. 1: Crime Shows on French Television
