Crime Media Culture

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In memory: The appeal of crime and Gray Cavender	24
Vile Sovereignty: The carnival of power	23
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state	18
Book Review: Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru	18
“There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective	14
Hidden depths: A deep dive into what lies beneath, before, and beyond criminological thought	12
Film review: The Forever Purge da SilvaJR (2024) GoutEverardo Valerio (dir.) (2021) The Forever Purge. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231224105	11
Framing femicide in the news, a paradoxical story: A comprehensive analysis of thematic and episodic frames	11
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes	8
Book review: Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity	8
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
‘One brother would carry another’: Emotions, political imprisonment, and the prison memoirs of the ‘blanketmen’	6
Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting	6
Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting	5
‘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 sport	5
Remembering the ghosts of public sex	5
Playing in the yard: The representation of control in train-graffiti videos	4
“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon	4
Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage	4
Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism	4
“A vision of the possible”: The life and works of Gray Cavender	4
When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence	4
Book Review: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition	3
Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility	3
Displaying devotion in social media: Letter TikToks by the partners of incarcerated people	3

The maternal subject in contemporary popular discourses of Correction: Reading Amanda Brown’s Prison Doctor Memoirs	3
Communing with the many shades of Ghost Criminology	3
‘These people are conning us’: Australia’s Medevac laws and the biopolitical production of the ‘malingering’ refugee	3
Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit	3
A critical reading of the Abbotsford Convent complex: Confronting sites of trauma, social memory, lived experience, and institutions of state “care”	2
Book Review: Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police	2
Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order	2
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, Brist	2
Book Review: Judah Schept, Coal, Cages, Crisis	2
Mass shootings and masculinities: exploring the multifaceted role of gender in cumulative strain theory	2
The Great Resignation	2
Book Review: Cunneen C, Deckert A, Porter A, Tauri J and Webb R, The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice	2
Ghosted by the drug trade: A digital ethnography of absence, ethics, and epistemic friction on Tinder	2
Ghost Criminology review symposium: Editors’ response	2
The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India	2
No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold	2
Review essay: Attica is a paradigm	2
Transcending prison walls: Prison podcasts, the listening experience, and narrative change	2
Biting back: A green-cultural criminology of animal liberation struggle as constructed through online communiques	1
Adolescence	1
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app	1
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
Monsters Are Real	1
Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals: New research directions for green criminology	1
Criminology and the smart city paradigm: ‘Preventative technical imaginary’ or ‘Techlash’ vector?	1
“The future of our nation’s in her hands”: The social construction of gender in far-right music	1
“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 2022	1
Reflecting on resistance through rituals 50 years on	1
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
Book review: When Cops Are Criminals	1
Exploring the value of queer archives in queer criminology: Interrogating narratives of incarceration and offending	1
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, N	1
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition	1
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
Genocide, gender and Nation in Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)	1
Book review: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times	1
More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’	1
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
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space	1
Telling ghost stories: Collateral consequences, haunting, and a criminology of fiction	1
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 ShowGoliath	1
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 hardbac	1
Funkeiros and criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor	1
The seductions and fallacies of misogynistic influencer culture: Looking through the lens of social bulimia	1
Civil War: A film review	1
Beyond “pleasant lies”: The “fictionalizing tendencies” in family members’ narratives of men’s violence	1
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US	1
Out of the shadows: A photo-essay of antipodean colonisation, resistance and massacres	1
Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams	0
Doxxing to destroy: The convergence of transphobic hate speech and non-consensual disclosure on X	0

Troubling Queer Criminology’s Normativity	0
Book Review: Justin Ellis, Representation, Resistance and the Digiqueer: Fighting for Recognition in Technocratic Times	0
“An epidemic of violence”: Examining U.S. news media depictions of anti-trans fatal violence in 2022	0
Crime media as cinematic “freak show”: Ableism and speciesism in retelling Dahmer	0
Propagandizing the visible, ignoring the invisible-visible	0
Different realities: Symbolic boundaries and psychedelic drug use	0
Criminalisation of truancy as a manifestation of advanced marginality that mothers should be blamed for: Media framing in the Czech Republic	0
Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order	0
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 Innocen	0
From conspiracy to normalcy: The mainstreaming of QAnon in “Disney grooming” messages online	0
Book review: Marianne Colbranne, Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK	0
The minutiae of crime-prone human ecologies	0
Book Review: Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power	0
Book Review: Victoria E Collins, Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines	0
Coda	0
From dealing to influencing: Online marketing of cannabis on Instagram	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: Tom Pollard, Sadomasochism, Popular Culture, and Revolt: A Pornography of Violence	0
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy	0
Cultural criminology, counter-extremism and the contemporary far right	0
Haunting homes: Tracing the lingering afterlives of violence in the domestic	0
Online disclosure, a mechanism for seeking informal justice?	0
From defund to refund the police: The hegemonic rupture and repair of policing logics	0
Information security for criminological ethnographers	0
School Copaganda in the US South: Tinsel, twinkle, and police-youth programming	0
“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 violence	0
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 978-1-032-51620-2	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 then	0
Doing good, doing wrong, doing time and doing harm: Criminalising the marginal in charity shops	0
Book Review: Vivian Saleh-Hannah, Jason Williams, and Michael Coyle (eds), Abolish Criminology	0
Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research	0
Book review: Jarrod Shanahan, Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage	0
A convergence of crises: COVID-19, climate change and bunkerization	0
Secondary characters in narratives of wrongful conviction	0
Documenting prison therapy: Insider audience perspectives on The Work (2017)	0
“I don’t like guns but having one in Winnipeg right now would feel safer”: Crime, liquor theft, and online fantasies of punishment and control	0
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. Spri	0
“The darkest time in our history”: An analysis of news media constructions of liquor theft in Canada’s settler colonial context	0
Film review: Steven Soderbergh (dir.) (2022) Kimi	0
The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical criminology and narrative criminology	0
Book review: The Last Outlaws BiberK. (2025). The Last Outlaws. Scribner. 324 pp. ISBN 1098765432, $36.99 (pbk).	0
Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks	0
Film Review: Anthony Theo (dir.) (2021) All Light Everywhere	0
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
Making lives grievable: Crime, culture and remembering the accused witches of Scotland	0
Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps	0
Seduction of far-right actions: A pathway to an authentic self?	0
Book review: Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women	0
The ‘most maligned’ witness in the Christopher Dawson case: Gender, power, media and legal culture in the digitally distributed live-streamed court	0
Book Review: David Altheide, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump	0
Make believe: Police accountability, lying and anti-blackness in the inquest of Sean Rigg	0
Melville and memory: Dark tourism, the carceral state, and radical pasts	0
Book Reviews: Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa	0
Humor, resistance, and the power of images: The case for studying prison cartoons	0
Queer matters in criminology	0
Book Review: Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty	0
‘It’s not just pink, fluffy handcuffs’: Criminalised communities, anti-surveillance, and hacking sextech	0
“Little wars with the police”: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult	0
Book review: Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt and Jason Warr (Eds), Sensory Penalties: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control	0
Stockpiling moral panics: The politics of anxiety and the securitization of ‘panic buyers’ in news media reporting of Covid-19	0
Book Review: Marc Schuilenburg, Hysteria: Crime, Media and Politics	0
Sexual terrorism in the post-pandemic nightlife? A feminist critical discourse analysis of the needle spiking media coverage	0
The quarantine pass	0
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 Fo	0
Haunted by Ghost Criminology	0
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention	0
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
Negotiating Black urban screen identities: Recognition, audio-visual authenticity and Black youth cultures in London	0
Ned culture, rituals and resistance: The enduring spectre of class in contemporary youth studies	0
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 Television	0
The platformisation of illicit drug markets: How datafication, technological affordances, and platform-mediated labour practices shape illicit drug markets	0
Chaotic conceptualisation, hyper-chronocentrism and cautionary tales: A cultural realist analysis of County Lines	0
Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence	0
Book review: Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination	0
Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement	0
Techno-digital policing and speculative fictions: Towards a criminology of the future	0
Book Review: Justin R. Ellis, Policing Legitimacy: Social Media, Scandal and Sexual Citizenship	0
‘It’s tantalising evidence . . . . but you’ve got to look at the wider picture’: Rap music as evidence in joint enterprise cases	0
Book review: Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms: A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective BrismanA.SouthN. (2025). Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Har	0

Review essay: Natural Perception and Nonhuman Witnessing PalmerAlice, Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in Environmental Law. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2023; 313 pp.	0
Framing misogyny in the metaverse: Theorising incel communities in virtual reality (VR) environments	0
Problematising anabolic-androgenic steroids in Australian media: Violence, crime and disordered masculinity	0
Reflecting on Gray Cavender	0
Book Review: Jordana Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders	0
Fraud on TV: The Reith principles and watching British public service broadcasting	0
Policing harm reduction: A case study of who counts as human	0
Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-19	0
Boggs Bills: Contrast agents in the art market and in law, or, how to make money as an artist	0
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
‘I’ve seen people on the train, like really weird people’ hauntological reflections on the fear of crime	0
The Fugitive: The news media’s role in the production of social problems and responsibilization of the public	0
Book Review: Social Movements and Protest Politics	0
Book review: Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood	0
Ghostwriters of crime narratives: Constructing the story by referring to intercept interpreters’ contributions in criminal case files	0
Book Reviews: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State	0
Misogynist incels gone mainstream: A critical review of the current directions in incel-focused research	0
Book Review: Óscar Martínez, Los muertos y el periodista	0
Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest	0
Community-oriented copaganda: Anti-Black violence in a visual archive of policing	0
Corrigendum to “Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams”	0
Gender, strain, and school violence: Theoretical perspectives on girls’ involvement in K-12 school shootings	0
Law, order, and social media: Perceptions of police effectiveness on X/Twitter	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
Digital Subcultural Diffusion Theory: Rebranding the incel ideology through Looksmaxxing, Sub5s and the PSL scale	0
“It’s time to transport ourselves back to the day of the crime”: The intimacy of sound in true crime podcasts	0
‘ Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories: Objective violence at Bodmin Jail	0
Criminal anthroposcenes 2.0: Race, racism, and breath-taking violence in the time of COVID	0
Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law	0
The Clansman, the Lynchings, and Enduring Racial Violence in Performance	0
Resistance through rituals: Theoretical and methodological legacy	0
Why young adults consume media content about serial killers: Evidence from Russia	0
“Prosecutors charge me, police watch after me”—The intertwining of authenticity, crime, and gang life in Finnish ‘gangsta rap’ music	0
Book review: Alex Simpson, Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography	0
Introduction of a Hungarian prison drawing from 2013	0
News media framing of correctional officers: “Corrections is so Negative, we don’t get any Good Recognition”	0
“What an invasion, an immense invasion”: Examining the adverse effects of true crime media on co-victims	0
The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror	0
‘There is more than one sort of prison, Captain’: A popular criminology of prisons and penal regimes in Star Wars	0
Revisiting resistance through rituals : Beyond essentialism – Then and now?	0
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 Pre	0
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties	0
“This is what a 13-year old girl looks like”: A feminist analysis of To Catch a Predator	0
Book Review: Toxic Masculinities Review Essay Toxic Masculinities Review Essay The Male Complaint by CoplandSimon James, 2025, Polity Press; 208 pp.: ISBN 9781509562558,	0
Book Review: Felia Allum and Anna Mitchell, Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe: Discarded Footnotes	0
He posted/she posted: Unpacking the affordances of social media evidence in sexual assault cases	0
An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana	0
Chronicle of a crime retold: Looking for Bobby Franks in the Leopold and Loeb films	0
The surprising spectacle of splashing soup: Critical reflections on climate protests targeting art	0