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Captured by the media : prison discourse in popular culture /
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 pris...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. :
Willan,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134008759 1134008759 9781843925767 1843925761 9781134008827 1134008821 9781134008896 1134008899 1299285090 9781299285095 1282077376 9781282077379 9786612077371 6612077379 |