News Media Criminology
Chris Greer · 2010
The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory, London: Sage.'Authoritarian State'.The question was not whether Marxism, but which Marxism.The Post-Marxist period, in contrast, has been characterised by theoretical heterogeneity and fragmentation.There were direct challenges to Marxist readings from within, and the expansion of traditional class-based notions of 'dominant ideology' to embrace gender and ethnicity.But this period has also seen the emergence of new frameworks for understanding crime news that seek to move beyond the reproduction of 'dominant ideology' as the paradigmatic concern.The first part of this chapter focuses on the Marxist and Post-Marxist theoretical perspectives that have shaped the field of news media criminology in Britain, bearing in mind that the most influential studies have not all been British.The second part explores