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Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems

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This chapter re-visits key concepts and methods in race and racism in order to consider the limits of media discourse, and of discourse analysis more broadly, for understanding race and racism in criminal justice systems.

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    With the advance of the war on terror , Poynting and Mason trace the transition in racialised representation in Australia from the Arab Other to the Muslim Other and similarly in the UK from the Asian to the Muslim Other (2006, p. 366). A large international literature has followed, identifying media’s Islamophobic discourse in concert with counter-terrorism practices producing suspect communities (see e.g. Hickman et al. 2011).

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    In the United Kingdom, the 1999 MacPherson inquiry into the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 found out that institutional racism was embedded in the Metropolitan Police .

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    Scott Poynting

  3. Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Waqas Tufail

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Sentas, V. (2018). Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems. In: Bhatia, M., Poynting, S., Tufail, W. (eds) Media, Crime and Racism. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71776-0_18

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