Crime Media Culture

Papers
(The TQCC of Crime Media Culture is 1. 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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memory: The appeal of crime and Gray Cavender29
Book Review: Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru26
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state20
Film review: The Forever Purge da SilvaJR (2024) GoutEverardo Valerio (dir.) (2021) The Forever Purge. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659023122410520
Rehabilitation frames: How offenders understand and navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese community corrections18
Framing femicide in the news, a paradoxical story: A comprehensive analysis of thematic and episodic frames15
“There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective11
Vile Sovereignty: The carnival of power9
Book review: Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity9
Hidden depths: A deep dive into what lies beneath, before, and beyond criminological thought9
‘One brother would carry another’: Emotions, political imprisonment, and the prison memoirs of the ‘blanketmen’7
Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting6
Remembering the ghosts of public sex6
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes5
Book review: Andrea Baker and Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (eds), Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era BakerAndreaRodriguesUsha Manchanda (eds), Re5
Playing in the yard: The representation of control in train-graffiti videos5
Moral panics, conservative contrarianism, and the polarizing debate about missing children, unmarked burials, and residential school denialism in Canada5
Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage5
“A vision of the possible”: The life and works of Gray Cavender5
‘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
‘These people are conning us’: Australia’s Medevac laws and the biopolitical production of the ‘malingering’ refugee4
“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon4
When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence4
Book Review: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition4
Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism4
Displaying devotion in social media: Letter TikToks by the partners of incarcerated people4
Communing with the many shades of Ghost Criminology3
Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit3
The Great Resignation3
The maternal subject in contemporary popular discourses of Correction: Reading Amanda Brown’s Prison Doctor Memoirs3
Book Review: Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police3
Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility3
Mass shootings and masculinities: exploring the multifaceted role of gender in cumulative strain theory3
A critical reading of the Abbotsford Convent complex: Confronting sites of trauma, social memory, lived experience, and institutions of state “care”3
The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India3
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
Ghosted by the drug trade: A digital ethnography of absence, ethics, and epistemic friction on Tinder2
Exposing the elephant in the room? Connecting speciesism to Canadian animal welfare legislation2
The seductions and fallacies of misogynistic influencer culture: Looking through the lens of social bulimia2
No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold2
Book Review: Cunneen C, Deckert A, Porter A, Tauri J and Webb R, The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice2
Genocide, gender and Nation in Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)2
Civil War : A film review GarlandAlex (Director) (2024) Civil War. Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Gregory Goodman (Producers), DNA Films (Production company), A24 (United2
Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order2
Ghost Criminology review symposium: Editors’ response2
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
Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals: New research directions for green criminology2
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
“The future of our nation’s in her hands”: The social construction of gender in far-right music1
Adolescence1
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition1
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 Real1
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
Funkeiros and criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor1
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space1
Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams1
‘I’ve seen people on the train, like really weird people’ hauntological reflections on the fear of crime1
Fraud on TV: The Reith principles and watching British public service broadcasting1
Book review: Veronica Gorrie, When Cops Are Criminals GorrieVeronica, When Cops Are Criminals. Scribe Publications: Brunswick, 2024, $36.99 (pbk).1
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
More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’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 20221
Beyond “pleasant lies”: The “fictionalizing tendencies” in family members’ narratives of men’s violence1
A new GamerGate? Digital ethnography of misogyny in the ‘Sweet Baby Inc Detected’ community1
Biting back: A green-cultural criminology of animal liberation struggle as constructed through online communiques1
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
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app1
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
Out of the shadows: A photo-essay of antipodean colonisation, resistance and massacres1
Exploring the value of queer archives in queer criminology: Interrogating narratives of incarceration and offending1
Telling ghost stories: Collateral consequences, haunting, and a criminology of fiction1
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US1
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
Reflecting on resistance through rituals 50 years on1
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
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
Criminology and the smart city paradigm: ‘Preventative technical imaginary’ or ‘Techlash’ vector?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
Book Review: David Altheide, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump1
Crime media as cinematic “freak show”: Ableism and speciesism in retelling Dahmer1
Book Review: Felia Allum and Anna Mitchell, Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe: Discarded Footnotes1
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