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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Homicide and the media
T2 - identifying the top cases in The Times
AU - Ackerley, Elizabeth
AU - Peelo, Moira Teresa
AU - Francis, Brian J.
AU - Soothill, Keith
AU - Pearson, Jayn
N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Statistics and Operational Research
PY - 2002/12/1
Y1 - 2002/12/1
N2 - Recent work on homicide and the media has focused on the United States. This study considers the British context and examines the coverage of homicide by a leading British newspaper (The Times) over a period of 23 years (1977 to 1999 inclusive). The focus is on the newspaper coverage of the top cases each year and over the whole period. This approach allows for an exploration of the hierarchy within ‘media–homicides’ that are distinguished in terms of ‘mega–cases’, ‘mezzo–cases’ and ‘routine cases’. Hence, this issue is shown to be a more complex social and cultural phenomenon than is usually understood through the traditional binary ‘reported–non reported’ approach. The importance of unusualness and cultural context is emphasised in fully understanding how homicides become, particularly, mega–cases.
AB - Recent work on homicide and the media has focused on the United States. This study considers the British context and examines the coverage of homicide by a leading British newspaper (The Times) over a period of 23 years (1977 to 1999 inclusive). The focus is on the newspaper coverage of the top cases each year and over the whole period. This approach allows for an exploration of the hierarchy within ‘media–homicides’ that are distinguished in terms of ‘mega–cases’, ‘mezzo–cases’ and ‘routine cases’. Hence, this issue is shown to be a more complex social and cultural phenomenon than is usually understood through the traditional binary ‘reported–non reported’ approach. The importance of unusualness and cultural context is emphasised in fully understanding how homicides become, particularly, mega–cases.
U2 - 10.1111/1468-2311.00255
DO - 10.1111/1468-2311.00255
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 401
EP - 421
JO - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
JF - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
SN - 0265-5527
IS - 5
ER -