Abstract
Our aim in this research project has been to explore how crime and criminal justice are handled in the British national media. We have tried to examine the whole communication process and therefore have studied the production of news and the content of newspapers, television news and current affairs programmes. To a lesser extent we have also examined some of the ways in which television audiences respond to programmes both factual and fictional about crime and criminal justice.
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Schlesinger, P., Tumber, H. (1992). Crime and Criminal Justice in the Media. In: Downes, D. (eds) Unravelling Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22044-1_8
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