Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular CulturePaul Mason Willan, 2006 - 240 páginas This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its contested meaning and its politics of representation - demands investigation. Alongside chapters addressing the construction of popular images of prison and the death penalty in television and film, Captured by the Media also has contributions from prison reform groups and prison practitioners which discuss forms of media intervention in penal debate. This book provides a highly readable exploration of media discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. At the same time it engages with the 'cultural turn' within criminology and offers an original contribution to discussion of the relationship between prison, public and the state. It will be essential reading for students in both media studies and criminology as well as practitioners and commentators in these fields. |
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... Girls . Bad Girls : good research ? Whilst Porridge might be regarded as constituting the ' baseline default representation of prison ' for those growing up in the 1970s ( notwithstanding that it has been repeated many times over the ...
... Girls . Bad Girls : good research ? Whilst Porridge might be regarded as constituting the ' baseline default representation of prison ' for those growing up in the 1970s ( notwithstanding that it has been repeated many times over the ...
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... Girls is entertaining , informative and educational . However , their assertion that Bad Girls has done more than any other prison drama to advance the cause of penal reform is worthy of further critical reflection . Claims about any ...
... Girls is entertaining , informative and educational . However , their assertion that Bad Girls has done more than any other prison drama to advance the cause of penal reform is worthy of further critical reflection . Claims about any ...
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... Girls . To this extent , then , the programme has succeeded in bringing to public attention some of the most depressing aspects of women's confinement . In addition , the series has educated the public regarding prison procedures that ...
... Girls . To this extent , then , the programme has succeeded in bringing to public attention some of the most depressing aspects of women's confinement . In addition , the series has educated the public regarding prison procedures that ...
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The function of fiction for a punitive public | 16 |
Red tops populists and the irresistible rise of | 31 |
a view from both sides of | 48 |
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