Constructing Crime : Perspectives on Making News And Social Problems

Preface vii Introduction 1(18) Part I Making News 19(74) 1 Enter Moral Panics 21(8) Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda 2 Media Constructions of Crime 29(13) Vincent F. Sacco 3 Crime Waves as Ideology 42(17) Mark Fishman 4 Fear and Loathing on Reality Television: An Analysis of America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries 59(11) Gray Cavender & Lisa Bond-Maupin 5 State Managers, Intellectuals, and the Media: A Content Analysis of Ideology in Experts' Quotes in Feature Newspaper Articles on Crime 70(23) Michael Welch, Melissa Fenwick, & Meredith Roberts Part II Constructing Crime Problems 93(174) 6 The Gang Initiation Rite as a Motif in Contemporary Crime Discourse 95(20) Joel Best & Mary M. Hutchinson 7 The Presentation of Drugs in the News Media: The News Sources Involved in the Construction of Social Problems 115(28) Steven Chermak 8 The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers against Drunk Drivers and Social Control in the 1980's 143(25) Craig Reinarman 9 Coverage of Domestic Violence Fatalities by Newspapers in Washington State 168(22) Cathy Ferrand Bullock & Jason Cubert 10 The Media Construction of Stalking Stereotypes 190(23) Brian H. Spitzberg & Michelle Cadiz 11 The Role of Television News in the Construction of School Violence as a "Moral Panic" 213(16) Donna Killingbeck 12 Constructing "Crime": Media Coverage of Individual and Organizational Wrongdoing 229(19) William S. Lofquist 13 "Road Warriors" on "Hair-Trigger Highways": Cultural Resources and the Media's Construction of the 1987 Freeway Shootings Problem 248(19) Joel Best Part III Effects of Constructing Crime 267(100) 14 Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects 269(19) Ted Chiricos, Sarah Eschholz, & Marc Gertz 15 Perceived Fears: The Reporting Patterns of Juvenile Homicide in Chicago Newspapers 288(25) John G. Boulahanis & Martha J. Heltsley 16 "All the News That's Fit to Print": A Content Analysis of the Correctional Debate in the New York Times 313(18) Michael Welch, Lisa Weber, & Walter Edwards 17 Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media 331(14) Craig Reinarman & Ceres Duskin 18 Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime 345(22) Ronald Weitzer & Charis E. Kubrin Epilogue 367(12) Index 379