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Crime and the media :

Muraskin, Roslyn.

Crime and the media : headlines versus reality / Roslyn Muraskin, Shelly Feuer Domash. - 1ST - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007. - xi, 162 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.

Overview : crime and the media : headlines versus reality -- What about the media? -- The relationship of crime reporting to the fear of crime -- Crimes and reactions -- The Salem witchcraft trials -- The Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 -- The Menedez brothers, 1989 -- Colin Ferguson, 1993 -- The O.J. Simpson case, 1994 -- Jon-Benet Ramsey, 1996 -- Kobe Bryant, 2003 -- Daniel Pelosi, 2001 -- Elizabeth Ann Smart, 2002 -- Scott Peterson, 2002 -- Michael Jackson, 2004 -- Female offenders depicted by the media -- A star is formed : media construction of the female criminal -- Martha Stewart : this case is about lying -- Can the mass media do good? -- If a story isn't depicted by the media, it doesn't exist -- Conclusion.

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Crime in mass media.
Crime and the press--United States--Case studies.
Mass media and criminal justice--United States--Case studies.

P96.C742 / U66 2007

364.973 / M.R.C