This book highlights and theorises the symbiosis that exists between real crime and its representations, from media and moral panics, policing the crisis and representing order to the post-modern confusion of crime and spectacle, trial by media and trials on media.

Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Crime and the Media: A Criminological Perspective - David Kidd-Hewitt (London Guildhall University) 2. Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Postmodernism - Richard Osborne (London GuildhallUniversity) 3. Entertaining the Crisis: Television and Moral Enterprise - Richard Sparks (Keele University) 4. Black Cops and Black Villains in Film and TV Crime Fiction - Jim Pines (University of Luton) 5. Telling Tales: Media Power, Ideology and the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Britain - Paula Skidmore (Nottingham Trent University) 6. Media Reporting of Rape: The 1993 British 'Date Rape' Controversy - Sue Lees (University of North London) 7. Through the Looking Glass: Public Images of White Collar Crime - A.E. Stephenson-Burton 8. A Fair Cop?: Viewing the Effects of the Canteen Culture in Prime Suspect and Between the Lines - Mary Eaton (St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex) 9. Prime Time Punishment: The British Prison and Television - Paul Mason 10. Small Crime to Big Time: An Australian Celebrity Self-Abduction - Noel Sanders (UTS, Sydney) 11. From Desire to Deconstruction: Horror Films and Audience Reactions - Rikke Schubart (University of Copenhagen) Notes - Index