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| Crime, Media, Culture | |
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| Name | Crime, Media, Culture |
| Field | Sociology, Criminology, Media Studies |
Crime, Media, Culture is an interdisciplinary topic examining how Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Arthur Conan Doyle have shaped popular narratives of transgression, detection, and justice through The New York Times, BBC, HBO, Netflix, and Rolling Stone. Scholars connect institutions such as FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol, American Civil Liberties Union, and National Institute of Justice with cultural producers like Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures to analyze representations across media systems including radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, print media, podcasting, and social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
The field maps concepts from Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, and Judith Butler onto practices of reportage by outlets like The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Le Monde. It distinguishes criminality as treated in works by Cesare Lombroso, Robert K. Merton, Travis Hirschi, Howard Becker, and Richard Hofstadter and situates mediated crime narratives within networks of corporations such as ViacomCBS, Disney, Amazon (company), Apple Inc., and Comcast. Definitions also draw on legal frameworks exemplified by Magna Carta, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, RICO Act, and International Criminal Court.
Early modern pamphlets and broadsides distributed by printers linked to William Caxton and newspapers like The Times documented criminal cases similar to serialized fiction in periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine, Penny Dreadfuls, Harper's Weekly, The Strand Magazine, and Punch (magazine). The rise of detective fiction after Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intersected with policing reforms related to Sir Robert Peel and institutions like Metropolitan Police Service and New York Police Department. The twentieth century saw crime films from studios like RKO Pictures and directors including Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, and Stanley Kubrick alongside tabloid expansion by New York Post, Daily Mail, Bild (newspaper), and Globe (newspaper). Television series produced by ABC (American Broadcasting Company), NBC, CBS, and later streaming services changed formats and distribution models.
Representations often rely on archetypes exemplified by characters created by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Michael Connelly, and Gillian Flynn and on visual tropes used by cinematographers who worked with Roger Deakins, Gordon Willis, Christopher Doyle, Anton Corbijn, and Freddie Young. News framing in outlets such as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and RT interacts with portrayals of marginalized groups discussed in studies invoking W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Frantz Fanon. Stereotypes of criminals, victims, and law enforcers appear in works by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Zadie Smith, Toni Morrison, and James Ellroy and are perpetuated by entertainment properties from James Bond, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, and Breaking Bad.
Mediated crime narratives influence public opinion studies by institutions like Pew Research Center, Gallup, RAND Corporation, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard Kennedy School. Moral panics described by Stanley Cohen and policy responses by legislators in United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, and Japan reflect cycles evident after high-profile events such as Watergate scandal, O. J. Simpson trial, Amanda Knox case, Sacco and Vanzetti case, and Kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Advocacy groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Victim Support, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International engage with media-driven agendas, while judicial reforms reference precedent from cases such as Miranda v. Arizona, Brown v. Board of Education, and Roe v. Wade.
Crime themes pervade works by filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa, and Sergio Leone, and television creators like David Chase, Vince Gilligan, Jerry Bruckheimer, David Simon, and Shonda Rhimes. Literary contributions span Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith, Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell, and Ruth Rendell. Music addressing crime appears in catalogues of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Tupac Shakur, and The Clash, while visual artists such as Andy Warhol, Banksy, Francis Bacon, Doris Salcedo, and Kara Walker incorporate punitive and criminal motifs. Festivals, awards, and institutions like Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Awards, and Grammy Awards shape cultural prestige.
The podcast boom led by producers behind Serial (podcast), This American Life, Crime Junkie, My Favorite Murder, and The Daily transformed audience engagement alongside platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Reddit, and TikTok. True crime series on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer, and HBO Max have prompted ethical debates involving journalists from ProPublica, The Intercept, BuzzFeed News, The Atlantic, and Vox. Open-source investigations by communities using tools developed by Bellingcat, Wikileaks, Project Veritas, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch illustrate how digital archives, geolocation, and crowdsourcing reshape cases from MH370 disappearance to electoral controversies.
Academic approaches draw on theorists Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and are pursued in departments at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and University of California, Berkeley. Journals such as Crime, Media, Culture (journal), The British Journal of Criminology, Law and Society Review, Journal of Communication, and Cultural Studies publish interdisciplinary research employing methods from scholars like Erving Goffman, Norman Fairclough, Randall Collins, Loïc Wacquant, and Anthony Giddens. Critical praxis engages with policy-makers, media professionals, and activist networks exemplified by Black Lives Matter, #MeToo movement, Occupy Wall Street, Extinction Rebellion, and Restore the Fourth.