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Volume 14 Issue 4

Graffiti and Perceptions of Safety: A Pilot Study Using Photographs and Survey Data
D. Mark Austin
Claudia Sanders

Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Theory in Blackboard Jungle
Kevin E. McCarthy

Lights, Camera, State Crime
Dawn L. Rothe
Jeffrey Ian Ross

Crime Shows and Sensational Interests: An Exploratory Examination of Students in Criminal Justice Related Majors
Monica L. P. Robbers

Book Reviews

A Review of Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Matthew Lumbard

A Review of The Truce: Lessons from a L.A. Gang War
Douglas L. Yearwood

A Review of Virtually Criminal: Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online
Sz-De Yu

Volume 14 Issue 3

Special Issue-Guest Edited by Kenneth Dowler

Introduction: Media Criminology in the Television World
Kenneth Dowler

Dramatic Portrayals of Violent Women: Female Offenders on Prime Time Crime Dramas
Dawn K. Cecil

The Perceived Impact of Crime Scene Investigation Shows on the Administration of Justice
Thomas Hughes
Megan Magers

The History of Violence: Mega Cases of Serial Murder, Self-Propelling Narratives, and Reader Engagement
Thomas Fleming

Volume 14 Issue 2

‘For Today in this Arena…' Legal Performativity and Dramatic Convention in the Victorian Criminal Justice System
Judith Rowbotham
Kim Stevenson

Doing time in "Camp Cupcake": Lessons Learned from Newspaper Accounts of Martha Stewart's Incarceration
Dawn K. Cecil

A Descriptive Analysis of Police Corruption in Film
Joseph L. Gustafson

"Only God Can Judge Me": Tupac Shakur, the Legal System, and Lyrical Subversion
Josh Nisker

They’re Just as Sadistic as Any Group of Boys! A Content Analysis of News Coverage of Sport-Related Hazing Incidents in High Schools.
Laura L. Finley
Peter S. Finley

Book Reviews

A Review of The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
William Stadler

A Review of Errors of Justice
Cody Stoddard

A Review of Moth Smoke
Vidisha Barura

 

Volume 14 Issue 1

Special Issue-Guest Edited by Steven M. Chermak

Introduction to the Special Issue
Steven M. Chermak

Beyond the Requisites: Alternative Starting Points in the Study of Media Effects and Youth Violence
Michelle Brown

Youth Gangs in the Print Media
Finn-Aage Esbensen
Karin E. Tusinski

Does “Special” Mean Young, White and Female? Deconstructing the Meaning of “Special” in Law & Order:  Special Victims Unit
Sarah Britto
Tycy Hughes
Kurt Saltzmann
Colin Stroh

Crime in the News: How Crimes, Offenders and Victims Are Portrayed in the Media
Jessica M. Pollak
Charis E. Kubrin

Juvenile “Super-Predators” in the News:  A Comparison of Adult and Juvenile Homicides
Jesenia M. Pizarro
Steven M. Chermak
Jeffrey A. Gruenewald

 

 

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