Crime Media Culture

Papers
(The median citation count of Crime Media Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru22
Vile Sovereignty: The carnival of power19
In memory: The appeal of crime and Gray Cavender17
Framing femicide in the news, a paradoxical story: A comprehensive analysis of thematic and episodic frames15
Film review: The Forever Purge da SilvaJR (2024) GoutEverardo Valerio (dir.) (2021) The Forever Purge. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659023122410514
Hidden depths: A deep dive into what lies beneath, before, and beyond criminological thought13
“There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective10
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state10
Book review: Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity9
The cultural scope and criminological potential of the “hardman story”9
Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting7
Book review: Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era BakerAndreaRodriguesUsha Manchanda (eds), Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era, Routledge, 2023; 207 pp.; ISBN 978-1-032-11552-8.6
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes6
‘Did the NFL start caring about women a lot more after Ray Rice? Probably not’: White-collar deviance and violence against women in racial capitalist sport5
Playing in the yard: The representation of control in train-graffiti videos4
Making new meanings: The entextualisation of digital communications evidence in English sexual offences trials4
Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage4
Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism4
“A vision of the possible”: The life and works of Gray Cavender4
“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon3
‘These people are conning us’: Australia’s Medevac laws and the biopolitical production of the ‘malingering’ refugee3
Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting3
Communing with the many shades of Ghost Criminology3
Violence, crime dystopia and the dialectics of (dis)order inThe Purgefilms3
When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence3
Film Review: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland3
Book Review: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition2
Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility2
Ghost Criminology review symposium: Editors’ response2
Review essay: Attica is a paradigm2
Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals: New research directions for green criminology2
Displaying devotion in social media: Letter TikToks by the partners of incarcerated people2
Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit2
Book Review: Kate Herrity, Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown HerrityKate, Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown, Brist2
Transcending prison walls: Prison podcasts, the listening experience, and narrative change2
Book Review: Judah Schept, Coal, Cages, Crisis2
The Great Resignation2
The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India2
Book Review: Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police2
Book Review: Cunneen C, Deckert A, Porter A, Tauri J and Webb R, The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice2
Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order2
Beyond “pleasant lies”: The “fictionalizing tendencies” in family members’ narratives of men’s violence1
Book review: Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance StardustZahra. Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. Duke: Durham; London, 2024. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3106-2, $28.95 (1
Exploring the value of queer archives in queer criminology: Interrogating narratives of incarceration and offending1
Reflecting on resistance through rituals 50 years on1
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US1
Funkeiros and criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor1
Genocide, gender and Nation in Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)1
Monsters Are Real1
Review Essay: An Aesthetic of Disorientation: Impressions of Crisis and Distance in the TV Show Goliath An Aesthetic of Disorientation: Impressions of Crisis and Distance in the TV ShowGoliath1
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space1
Book Review: Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime IsomDeena A., Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N1
Biting back: A green-cultural criminology of animal liberation struggle as constructed through online communiques1
The seductions and fallacies of misogynistic influencer culture: Looking through the lens of social bulimia1
Book review: Trial by Media: Participatory Justice in a Networked World Trial by Media: Participatory Justice in a Networked World. Edited By GiesLieve (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 351pp. £85.98 hardbac1
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition1
Book review: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times1
Do-it-yourself surveillance: The practices and effects of WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention groups1
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app1
Criminology and the smart city paradigm: ‘Preventative technical imaginary’ or ‘Techlash’ vector?1
Civil War: A film review1
The need for a criminology of housing exploitation: A review of the documentary film The Impossibility HlaváčekT. (Director) (2024) The Impossibility [Film], 146 min, GPO Platform and Czech Television0
Book Review: Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power0
Stockpiling moral panics: The politics of anxiety and the securitization of ‘panic buyers’ in news media reporting of Covid-190
Problematising anabolic-androgenic steroids in Australian media: Violence, crime and disordered masculinity0
A convergence of crises: COVID-19, climate change and bunkerization0
The quarantine pass0
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention0
‘It’s tantalising evidence . . . . but you’ve got to look at the wider picture’: Rap music as evidence in joint enterprise cases0
Ghostwriters of crime narratives: Constructing the story by referring to intercept interpreters’ contributions in criminal case files0
“Prosecutors charge me, police watch after me”—The intertwining of authenticity, crime, and gang life in Finnish ‘gangsta rap’ music0
Review Essay Visualising Truth to Power: A response to Forensic Architecture (2024) A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigat0
Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories: Objective violence at Bodmin Jail0
Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order0
The Clansman, the Lynchings, and Enduring Racial Violence in Performance0
The surprising spectacle of splashing soup: Critical reflections on climate protests targeting art0
Haunting homes: Tracing the lingering afterlives of violence in the domestic0
Book Review: Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City SchwarzeT. Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham,0
Humor, resistance, and the power of images: The case for studying prison cartoons0
“The darkest time in our history”: An analysis of news media constructions of liquor theft in Canada’s settler colonial context0
Boggs Bills: Contrast agents in the art market and in law, or, how to make money as an artist0
CODA0
Make believe: Police accountability, lying and anti-blackness in the inquest of Sean Rigg0
Revisiting resistance through rituals : Beyond essentialism – Then and now?0
Policing harm reduction: A case study of who counts as human0
Book Review: Victoria E Collins, Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines0
Book review: When Cops Are Criminals0
Book review: Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood0
Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps0
Book review: Jarrod Shanahan, Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage0
Book Review: Rupal Oza, Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India OzaRupal, Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India. Duke University Press, 2022; 0
Out of the shadows: A photo-essay of antipodean colonisation, resistance and massacres0
Reflecting on Gray Cavender0
“I don’t like guns but having one in Winnipeg right now would feel safer”: Crime, liquor theft, and online fantasies of punishment and control0
Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law0
Book Review: Marc Schuilenburg, Hysteria: Crime, Media and Politics0
Book Review: Felia Allum and Anna Mitchell, Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe: Discarded Footnotes0
Book Review: Óscar Martínez, Los muertos y el periodista0
Introduction of a Hungarian prison drawing from 20130
‘I’ve seen people on the train, like really weird people’ hauntological reflections on the fear of crime0
Book Review: Peter Bengtsen, Tracks and Traces: Exploring the World of Graffiti Writing through Visual Methods BengtsenPeter, Tracks and Traces: Exploring the World of Graffiti Writing through Visual 0
Book Review: David Altheide, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump0
Coda0
The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror0
Book review: Unsilenced: Women Musicians, gender-based violence, and the popular music industry HillRLFilebornBStrongC (2025) Unsilenced: Women Musicians, gender-based violence, and the popular music 0
School Copaganda in the US South: Tinsel, twinkle, and police-youth programming0
Doing good, doing wrong, doing time and doing harm: Criminalising the marginal in charity shops0
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties0
Book review: Tom Pollard, Sadomasochism, Popular Culture, and Revolt: A Pornography of Violence0
Criminal anthroposcenes 2.0: Race, racism, and breath-taking violence in the time of COVID0
Book review: Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination0
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court0
Negotiating Black urban screen identities: Recognition, audio-visual authenticity and Black youth cultures in London0
Book review: Alex Simpson, Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography0
Sexual terrorism in the post-pandemic nightlife? A feminist critical discourse analysis of the needle spiking media coverage0
Book Review: Avi Brisman, Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice BrismanAvi (2023) Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice. Abingdon,0
Book Review: Vivian Saleh-Hannah, Jason Williams, and Michael Coyle (eds), Abolish Criminology0
Book Review: Social Movements and Protest Politics0
Book review: Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women0
“We cannot win this fight if we don’t acknowledge any such fight exists”: Examining media coverage of Black women’s risk for intimate partner violence0
Book review: Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt and Jason Warr (Eds), Sensory Penalties: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control0
Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest0
An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana0
Film Review: Anthony Theo (dir.) (2021) All Light Everywhere0
Secondary characters in narratives of wrongful conviction0
Doxxing to destroy: The convergence of transphobic hate speech and non-consensual disclosure on X0
Misogynist incels gone mainstream: A critical review of the current directions in incel-focused research0
Adolescence0
Troubling Queer Criminology’s Normativity0
NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives0
From defund to refund the police: The hegemonic rupture and repair of policing logics0
“This is what a 13-year old girl looks like”: A feminist analysis of To Catch a Predator0
Review essay0
Seduction of far-right actions: A pathway to an authentic self?0
Book Review: Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty0
Cultural criminology, counter-extremism and the contemporary far right0
Crime media as cinematic “freak show”: Ableism and speciesism in retelling Dahmer0
Missing Youth: Reflecting on Resistance through Rituals and the sociological study of working-class youth and youth culture since then0
Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams0
Propagandizing the visible, ignoring the invisible-visible0
Technology facilitated re-victimization: How video evidence of sexual violence contributes to mediated cycles of abuse0
Documenting prison therapy: Insider audience perspectives on The Work (2017)0
Community-oriented copaganda: Anti-Black violence in a visual archive of policing0
Gender, strain, and school violence: Theoretical perspectives on girls’ involvement in K-12 school shootings0
Book Review: Justin R. Ellis, Policing Legitimacy: Social Media, Scandal and Sexual Citizenship0
Information security for criminological ethnographers0
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy0
‘There is more than one sort of prison, Captain’: A popular criminology of prisons and penal regimes in Star Wars0
Film review: Steven Soderbergh (dir.) (2022) Kimi0
News media framing of correctional officers: “Corrections is so Negative, we don’t get any Good Recognition”0
Online disclosure, a mechanism for seeking informal justice?0
“Little wars with the police”: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult0
Book Review: Jordana Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders0
The platformisation of illicit drug markets: How datafication, technological affordances, and platform-mediated labour practices shape illicit drug markets0
From dealing to influencing: Online marketing of cannabis on Instagram0
The minutiae of crime-prone human ecologies0
Mapping technology-harm relations: From ambient harms to zemiosis0
Book Reviews: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State0
The Fugitive: The news media’s role in the production of social problems and responsibilization of the public0
Book Review: Justin Ellis, Representation, Resistance and the Digiqueer: Fighting for Recognition in Technocratic Times0
Techno-digital policing and speculative fictions: Towards a criminology of the future0
Book Reviews: Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa0
“An epidemic of violence”: Examining U.S. news media depictions of anti-trans fatal violence in 20220
Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks0
Taking responsibility: Testimonial practices in Rithy Panh’s S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine0
Telling ghost stories: Collateral consequences, haunting, and a criminology of fiction0
Chronicle of a crime retold: Looking for Bobby Franks in the Leopold and Loeb films0
From conspiracy to normalcy: The mainstreaming of QAnon in “Disney grooming” messages online0
Book Review: Lois Presser, Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences PresserLois, Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences. University of California Press: Oakland, California, 2022; 212 pp.: ISBN 9780520384941, $0
Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-190
He posted/she posted: Unpacking the affordances of social media evidence in sexual assault cases0
“It’s time to transport ourselves back to the day of the crime”: The intimacy of sound in true crime podcasts0
Book review: Disclosing Sexual Violence in a Digital Society: Storytelling, Activism, and Justice O’NeillTullyDisclosing Sexual Violence in a Digital Society: Storytelling, Activism, and Justice. Spri0
Book review: Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played SteinmetzKevin F.GrubbJonathan A. (eds). Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played. Routledge: Abingdon. 2024. ISBN: 978-1-03-238803-0
Book review: Marianne Colbranne, Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK0
Haunted by Ghost Criminology0
The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical criminology and narrative criminology0
Why young adults consume media content about serial killers: Evidence from Russia0
Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement0
‘It’s not just pink, fluffy handcuffs’: Criminalised communities, anti-surveillance, and hacking sextech0
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