Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular CultureThis 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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... of an impression on the way they saw themselves were stories that provided
clear examples of right and wrong , where justice prevailed , where authority was
fair or struggled to be so and where underdogs successfully traversed obstacles .
Another interviewee , Sandra , 63 , living in a high - crime area in east London
described her interest in stories about ' authority ' and the justice process : ' Well I
love crime and punishment to be honest . I love documentaries on all that I ' ve ...
During the first week in prison , the average prisoner forms a revulsion against
authority that in normal circumstances would take a lifetime of mismanagement to
acquire ; a revulsion born of bitterness and self - pity , and nurtured by being in ...
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This book is concerned with how public opinion, punitivism, and the media come together. The various contributors provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which media representations of prison influence perceptions of prison and punishment in popular culture. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds with some working in, with, and against the penal system and thus offer an interdiscipinary account of the prison-media nexus. Although this book does make a significant contribution to the debate over media representations of prison and punishment, it is, by no means, a vehicle for change, as it does not move beyond the obvious and long-standing argument of media misrepresentation.
Reviewed by: KARA BRISSON
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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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