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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Rehabilitation frames: How offenders understand and navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese community corrections34
Hidden depths: A deep dive into what lies beneath, before, and beyond criminological thought24
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state23
Framing femicide in the news, a paradoxical story: A comprehensive analysis of thematic and episodic frames19
In memory: The appeal of crime and Gray Cavender16
Book Review: Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru11
Film review: The Forever Purge da SilvaJR (2024) GoutEverardo Valerio (dir.) (2021) The Forever Purge. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659023122410511
Vile Sovereignty: The carnival of power10
“There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective8
Remembering the ghosts of public sex6
‘One brother would carry another’: Emotions, political imprisonment, and the prison memoirs of the ‘blanketmen’6
Book review: Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity6
Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting5
‘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 videos5
“A vision of the possible”: The life and works of Gray Cavender5
Book review: Andrea Baker and Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (eds), Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era BakerAndreaRodriguesUsha Manchanda (eds), Re5
Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage5
Moral panics, conservative contrarianism, and the polarizing debate about missing children, unmarked burials, and residential school denialism in Canada5
“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon4
Communing with the many shades of Ghost Criminology4
‘These people are conning us’: Australia’s Medevac laws and the biopolitical production of the ‘malingering’ refugee4
When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence4
Displaying devotion in social media: Letter TikToks by the partners of incarcerated people4
Book Review: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition4
Mass shootings and masculinities: exploring the multifaceted role of gender in cumulative strain theory3
Book Review: Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police3
No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold3
The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India3
The maternal subject in contemporary popular discourses of Correction: Reading Amanda Brown’s Prison Doctor Memoirs3
Ghost Criminology review symposium: Editors’ response3
Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit3
A critical reading of the Abbotsford Convent complex: Confronting sites of trauma, social memory, lived experience, and institutions of state “care”3
Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility3
The Great Resignation3
Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order2
Ghosted by the drug trade: A digital ethnography of absence, ethics, and epistemic friction on Tinder2
Book Review: Cunneen C, Deckert A, Porter A, Tauri J and Webb R, The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice2
Book review: McGuinness P, Simpson A, Fredriksson T, Hauntology: An Introduction for Criminologists McGuinnessPSimpsonAFredrikssonT et al. (2025). Haunto2
Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals: New research directions for green criminology2
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
Book Review: Eleanor Peters, A Criminology of Popular Music PetersEleanor (2025), A Criminology of Popular Music, Bristol University Press, Bristol. ISBN2
Transcending prison walls: Prison podcasts, the listening experience, and narrative change2
Criminology and the smart city paradigm: ‘Preventative technical imaginary’ or ‘Techlash’ vector?2
The seductions and fallacies of misogynistic influencer culture: Looking through the lens of social bulimia2
Review essay: Attica is a paradigm BurtonOrisanmi, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. University of California Press, 2023; 328 pp.: ISBN: 97805203963262
Book Review: Judah Schept, Coal, Cages, Crisis2
Civil War : A film review GarlandAlex (Director) (2024) Civil War. Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Gregory Goodman (Producers), DNA Films (Production company), A24 (United2
Genocide, gender and Nation in Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)2
Exposing the elephant in the room? Connecting speciesism to Canadian animal welfare legislation2
Biting back: A green-cultural criminology of animal liberation struggle as constructed through online communiques1
Book Review: Felia Allum and Anna Mitchell, Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe: Discarded Footnotes1
Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams1
Book Review: Lois Presser, Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences PresserLois, Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences. University of California Press: Oakland, California, 2022; 212 pp.: ISBN 9780520384941, $1
Adolescence1
Book Review: Deena A. Isom, Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime IsomDeena A., Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory 1
Funkeiros and criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor1
A new GamerGate? Digital ethnography of misogyny in the ‘Sweet Baby Inc Detected’ community1
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US1
Beyond “pleasant lies”: The “fictionalizing tendencies” in family members’ narratives of men’s violence1
Exploring the value of queer archives in queer criminology: Interrogating narratives of incarceration and offending1
Book review: Veronica Gorrie, When Cops Are Criminals GorrieVeronica, When Cops Are Criminals. Scribe Publications: Brunswick, 2024, $36.99 (pbk).1
Fraud on TV: The Reith principles and watching British public service broadcasting1
Out of the shadows: A photo-essay of antipodean colonisation, resistance and massacres1
Reflecting on resistance through rituals 50 years on1
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
“The future of our nation’s in her hands”: The social construction of gender in far-right music1
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
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition1
Book Review: Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town PearsonHeath, Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town, Duke University Press: Durham, NC,1
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space1
Sensing environmental harm beyond the forensic frame: Alice Palmer’s Natural Perception and Michael Richardson’s Nonhuman Witnessing PalmerAlice, Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetic1
The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical criminology and narrative criminology1
Making lives grievable: Crime, culture and remembering the accused witches of Scotland1
Crime media as cinematic “freak show”: Ableism and speciesism in retelling Dahmer1
Telling ghost stories: Collateral consequences, haunting, and a criminology of fiction1
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: 978-1-03-238803-1
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app1
“Even our hardest prisoners are being given free yoga lessons so they can find inner peace”: Newspaper framing of prison yoga programs from 1981 to 20221
More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’1
Monsters Are Real1
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
Book review: A Forgotten History of Import to Understanding Mass Incarceration, Intersectionality, and Criminal Justice Growth Within the United States Over the Past Sixty YearsAmy Sonnie and James Tr1
“What an invasion, an immense invasion”: Examining the adverse effects of true crime media on co-victims0
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
Misogynist incels gone mainstream: A critical review of the current directions in incel-focused research0
Book Review: David Altheide, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump0
Information security for criminological ethnographers0
“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
Community-oriented copaganda: Anti-Black violence in a visual archive of policing0
Compliance, innocence, resistance: Bodyworn cameras and discourses of mediated policing on YouTube0
Gender, strain, and school violence: Theoretical perspectives on girls’ involvement in K-12 school shootings0
Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law0
Book review: Marianne Colbranne, Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK0
Doxxing to destroy: The convergence of transphobic hate speech and non-consensual disclosure on X0
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: Policing the narrative: Book review of Tony Cheng’s “The Policing Machine” and Alec Karakatsanis’ “Copaganda” Policing the narrative: Book review of Tony Cheng’s “ 0
‘It’s not just pink, fluffy handcuffs’: Criminalised communities, anti-surveillance, and hacking sextech0
The minutiae of crime-prone human ecologies0
Book Review: Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World McGarveyDarren, Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World, Ebury Press:0
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
Reflecting on Gray Cavender0
Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks0
Gore content and refigured ethics0
Humor, resistance, and the power of images: The case for studying prison cartoons0
News media framing of correctional officers: “Corrections is so Negative, we don’t get any Good Recognition”0
An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana0
“Little wars with the police”: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult0
Book Review: Schwarze, T. Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City SchwarzeT. Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life:0
“Prosecutors charge me, police watch after me”—The intertwining of authenticity, crime, and gang life in Finnish ‘gangsta rap’ music0
Seduction of far-right actions: A pathway to an authentic self?0
Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories: Objective violence at Bodmin Jail0
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
The legacy of Resistance Through Rituals0
Criminalisation of truancy as a manifestation of advanced marginality that mothers should be blamed for: Media framing in the Czech Republic0
‘There is more than one sort of prison, Captain’: A popular criminology of prisons and penal regimes in Star Wars0
The platformisation of illicit drug markets: How datafication, technological affordances, and platform-mediated labour practices shape illicit drug markets0
Resistance through rituals: Theoretical and methodological legacy0
Boggs Bills: Contrast agents in the art market and in law, or, how to make money as an artist0
Book review: Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination VoglAnthea, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. Cam0
Book Review: First Person Shooter (Vol 1: 1981–1998) Guns Don’t Kill People, Neoliberalism Kills PeopleHelleboreRoderick. First Person Shooter (Vol 1: 1981–1998). Todos Contentos Y Yo También. 2025.0
School Copaganda in the US South: Tinsel, twinkle, and police-youth programming0
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties0
Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps0
‘It’s tantalising evidence . . . . but you’ve got to look at the wider picture’: Rap music as evidence in joint enterprise cases0
Revisiting resistance through rituals : Beyond essentialism – Then and now?0
Book review: Alex Simpson, Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography0
In search of belonging: Lived experience livestreaming and relational desistance after imprisonment in China0
‘The border is calling’: Cross-border crime, police militarisation and benevolent policing in the visual-discursive framing of border police recruitment adverts0
‘I’ve seen people on the train, like really weird people’ hauntological reflections on the fear of crime0
Book review: Tully O’Neill, Disclosing Sexual Violence in a Digital Society: Storytelling, Activism, and Justice O’NeillTullyDisclosing Sexual Violence i0
A convergence of crises: COVID-19, climate change and bunkerization0
Queer matters in criminology0
Book Review: Toxic Masculinities Review Essay Toxic Masculinities Review Essay The Male Complaint by CoplandSimon James, 2025, Polity Press; 208 pp.: ISB0
Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research0
Why young adults consume media content about serial killers: Evidence from Russia0
‘Out here, you live and die by your reputation’: Organised crime and dark capital in Star Wars: Outlaws0
Spectating genocide: Rethinking the bystander at the intersection of international criminal law and criminology0
Digital Subcultural Diffusion Theory: Rebranding the incel ideology through Looksmaxxing, Sub5s and the PSL scale0
Cultural criminology, counter-extremism and the contemporary far right0
Different realities: Symbolic boundaries and psychedelic drug use0
Book review: Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women0
Book review: Far-Right Extremism Online: Beyond the Fringe and The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meaning of Online Far-Right Propaganda MunkT. (2024). Far-Right Extremism Online: Beyond the F0
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Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest0
Corrigendum to “Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams”0
Book review: Jarrod Shanahan, Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage0
Book review: Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms: A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective BrismanA.SouthN. (2025). Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Har0
Troubling Queer Criminology’s Normativity0
Book Reviews: Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa0
From conspiracy to normalcy: The mainstreaming of QAnon in “Disney grooming” messages online0
“An epidemic of violence”: Examining U.S. news media depictions of anti-trans fatal violence in 20220
“It’s time to transport ourselves back to the day of the crime”: The intimacy of sound in true crime podcasts0
Policing harm reduction: A case study of who counts as human0
Law, order, and social media: Perceptions of police effectiveness on X/Twitter0
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court0
Beefsquatch and the raccoon king: A criminological exploration of human-animal relations in Bob’s Burgers0
Sexual terrorism in the post-pandemic nightlife? A feminist critical discourse analysis of the needle spiking media coverage0
“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: Police visuality, the right to look, and the right to maim0
Negotiating Black urban screen identities: Recognition, audio-visual authenticity and Black youth cultures in London0
GangTok: Street gang content, culture, and roleplay on TikTok0
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 review: A Popular Criminology of Youth Justice: Youth on Film UrwinJ. (2025). A Popular Criminology of Youth Justice: Youth on Film. Routledge; 204 pp.: ISBN 978-1-032-51620-20
Ned culture, rituals and resistance: The enduring spectre of class in contemporary youth studies0
“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
Problematising anabolic-androgenic steroids in Australian media: Violence, crime and disordered masculinity0
Secondary characters in narratives of wrongful conviction0
Review Essay: Visualising Truth to Power: A response to Forensic Architecture (2024) A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023 Visualising Truth to Power: A response to Fo0
Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence0
Make believe: Police accountability, lying and anti-blackness in the inquest of Sean Rigg0
Book Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime FleetwoodJennifer, What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime, Notting Hill Editions: London, 2024; 152 pp.: ISBN: 9781912559534, £10.99 ppk0
Documenting prison therapy: Insider audience perspectives on The Work (2017)0
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
Missing Youth: Reflecting on Resistance through Rituals and the sociological study of working-class youth and youth culture since then0
Chronicle of a crime retold: Looking for Bobby Franks in the Leopold and Loeb films0
Book Reviews: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State0
“This is what a 13-year old girl looks like”: A feminist analysis of To Catch a Predator0
Introduction of a Hungarian prison drawing from 20130
Book Review: The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialised Storytelling is Transforming Innocence RickardD. (2023). The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialised Storytelling is Transforming Innocen0
Book Review: Vivian Saleh-Hannah, Jason Williams, and Michael Coyle (eds), Abolish Criminology0
Throwback fascism: Accelerationist fascination with the faux 50s0
From defund to refund the police: The hegemonic rupture and repair of policing logics0
Book Review: Óscar Martínez, Los muertos y el periodista0
Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-190
Haunted by Ghost Criminology0
Melville and memory: Dark tourism, the carceral state, and radical pasts0
Book review: The Last Outlaws BiberK. (2025). The Last Outlaws. Scribner. 324 pp. ISBN 1098765432, $36.99 (pbk).0
Book Review: Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power0
Book Review: Greg Martin, Social Movements and Protest Politics, 2nd edn MartinGreg, Social Movements and Protest Politics, 2nd edn., Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2024; 452 pp.; ISBN 978100
Cold case comfort: Emotions, motivations, and identities of true crime fans0
He posted/she posted: Unpacking the affordances of social media evidence in sexual assault cases0
Film review: Steven Soderbergh (dir.) (2022) Kimi0
The ‘mafia cultural drift’: A digital ethnography of Calabrian parochialism and ’ndrangheta values on TikTok0
Good kid, mad city: On the political meaning of Kyle Rittenhouse0
Framing misogyny in the metaverse: Theorising incel communities in virtual reality (VR) environments0
The surprising spectacle of splashing soup: Critical reflections on climate protests targeting art0
The quarantine pass0
Book review: Keith Hayward, Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood HaywardKeith, Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood. Constable: London, 2024; 422 pp.: ISBN: 9781408720585, £25.0
Book review: Conflicted: Making News from Global War BlacksonI. (2024). Conflicted: Making News from Global War. Stanford University Press. 330 pp. $32. ISBN 9781503638242.0
Book Review: Jordana Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders0
Stockpiling moral panics: The politics of anxiety and the securitization of ‘panic buyers’ in news media reporting of Covid-190
On the afterlives of incarceration: An interdisciplinary examination of narrative construction at Shrewsbury prison museum, UK0
A Postcolonial feminist inquiry of women’s militancy: Hegemonic discourses on terrorism and epistemic resistance in Sri Lanka0
The Clansman, the Lynchings, and Enduring Racial Violence in Performance0
Book Review: Born of War in Colombia. Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence ParraTatiana Sánchez, Born of War in Colombia. Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence. Rutgers University Pre0
Haunting homes: Tracing the lingering afterlives of violence in the domestic0
Doing good, doing wrong, doing time and doing harm: Criminalising the marginal in charity shops0
Text messages and social media posts as evidence in rape trials: A new entry point for rape myths?0
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy0
Chaotic conceptualisation, hyper-chronocentrism and cautionary tales: A cultural realist analysis of County Lines0
The Fugitive: The news media’s role in the production of social problems and responsibilization of the public0
Ghostwriters of crime narratives: Constructing the story by referring to intercept interpreters’ contributions in criminal case files0
Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement0
Online disclosure, a mechanism for seeking informal justice?0
The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror0
Propagandizing the visible, ignoring the invisible-visible0
Book review: Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt and Jason Warr (Eds), Sensory Penalties: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control0
Book review: Rafe McGregor, Literary Theory and Criminology McGregorRafe, Literary Theory and Criminology. Routledge, London, 2023, ISBN 9781032262802, €0
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