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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memory: The appeal of crime and Gray Cavender20
Vile Sovereignty: The carnival of power17
Book Review: Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru17
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state15
“There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective12
Hidden depths: A deep dive into what lies beneath, before, and beyond criminological thought10
Framing femicide in the news, a paradoxical story: A comprehensive analysis of thematic and episodic frames9
Film review: The Forever Purge da SilvaJR (2024) GoutEverardo Valerio (dir.) (2021) The Forever Purge. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/174165902312241057
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes7
Book review: Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity5
The cultural scope and criminological potential of the “hardman story”5
Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting5
“A vision of the possible”: The life and works of Gray Cavender4
‘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 sport4
Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting4
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 978-1-032-11552-8.4
Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage4
Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism4
“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon3
When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence3
Communing with the many shades of Ghost Criminology3
Film Review: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland3
Displaying devotion in social media: Letter TikToks by the partners of incarcerated people3
‘These people are conning us’: Australia’s Medevac laws and the biopolitical production of the ‘malingering’ refugee3
Playing in the yard: The representation of control in train-graffiti videos3
Book Review: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition3
Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit2
Book Review: Judah Schept, Coal, Cages, Crisis2
Review essay: Attica is a paradigm2
A critical reading of the Abbotsford Convent complex: Confronting sites of trauma, social memory, lived experience, and institutions of state “care”2
Mass shootings and masculinities: exploring the multifaceted role of gender in cumulative strain theory2
No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold2
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: Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police2
The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India2
The Great Resignation2
Book Review: Cunneen C, Deckert A, Porter A, Tauri J and Webb R, The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice2
Ghost Criminology review symposium: Editors’ response2
Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility2
Transcending prison walls: Prison podcasts, the listening experience, and narrative change1
Criminology and the smart city paradigm: ‘Preventative technical imaginary’ or ‘Techlash’ vector?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
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition1
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space1
Book review: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times1
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US1
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
Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals: New research directions for green criminology1
Civil War: A film review1
Monsters Are Real1
Funkeiros and criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor1
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app1
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
Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order1
The seductions and fallacies of misogynistic influencer culture: Looking through the lens of social bulimia1
Beyond “pleasant lies”: The “fictionalizing tendencies” in family members’ narratives of men’s violence1
Genocide, gender and Nation in Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)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 ShowGoliath1
Book review: When Cops Are Criminals1
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
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