Media and Crime

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has been carrying out prison research—much of it ethnography—for over 20 years and has spent the last decade researching and writing about prison architecture and design and their potential to rehabilitate. She has recently held two Economic and Social Research Council grants to study these topics and has worked as a consultant to prison architects and senior prison service personnel around the world. She has published extensively on various aspects of prisons and imprisonment, including (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett) The Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed., 2016, Routledge). With Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, she is the Founding Editor of the new SAGE journal Incarceration.

• Chapter 1: The Media-Crime RelationshipChapter 2: The Construction of Crime NewsChapter 3: Crime, Law and Order, Politics and MediaChapter 4: The Crime Entertainment IndustryChapter 5: Police and the MediaChapter 6: Courts, Prison Life, and the MediaChapter 7: Victimisation and theChapter 8: Criminalisation and the MediaConcluding Thoughts on the Relationship Between Media and Crime