Media, Crime and Racism

Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities. Comprised of empirically rich accounts and theoretically informed analysis, this dynamic text offers readers a critical and in-depth examination of contemporary social and criminal justice issues as they pertain to racialised minorities and the media. Chapters demonstrate the myriad ways in which racialised 'others' experience demonisation, exclusion, racist abuse and violence licensed and often induced by the state and the media. Together, they also offer original and nuanced analysis of how these processes can be experienced differently dependent on geography, political context and local resistance. This collection critically reflects on a number of globally significant topics including thevilification of Muslim minorities, the portrayal of the refugee 'crisis' and the representations and resistance of Indigenous and Black communities. This volume demonstrates that processes of racialisation and criminalisation in media and the state cannot be understood without reference to how they are underscored and inflected by gender and power. Above all, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the resistance of racialised minorities in localised contexts across the globe: against racialisation and criminalisation and in pursuit of racial justice.

Offers critical reflections on the media and their representations of ethnicity and 'race' in relation to crime, criminals and victims, and their impact on criminal justice policies, procedures and practices Highlights the process of racialised myth construction or misrepresentation of criminals and victims and the ways in which this interacts with the criminal justice system Critically examines a number of contemporary and highly topical case studies including: the Australian border controls and Rohingya refugee crisis, the European refugee crisis, and the Trollhättan Attack in Sweden, to name a few

Autorentext
Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Klappentext
Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities. Comprised of empirically rich accounts and theoretically informed analysis, this dynamic text offers readers a critical and in-depth examination of contemporary social and criminal justice issues as they pertain to racialised minorities and the media. Chapters demonstrate the myriad ways in which racialised 'others' experience demonisation, exclusion, racist abuse and violence licensed and often induced by the state and the media. Together, they also offer original and nuanced analysis of how these processes can be experienced differently dependent on geography, political context and local resistance. This collection critically reflects on a number of globally significant topics including thevilification of Muslim minorities, the portrayal of the refugee 'crisis' and the representations and resistance of Indigenous and Black communities. This volume demonstrates that processes of racialisation and criminalisation in media and the state cannot be understood without reference to how they are underscored and inflected by gender and power. Above all, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the resistance of racialised minorities in localised contexts across the globe: against racialisation and criminalisation and in pursuit of racial justice.

Zusammenfassung
Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities. Comprised of empirically rich accounts and theoretically informed analysis, this dynamic text offers readers a critical and in-depth examination of contemporary social and criminal justice issues as they pertain to racialised minorities and the media. Chapters demonstrate the myriad ways in which racialised 'others' experience demonisation, exclusion, racist abuse and violence licensed and often induced by the state and the media. Together, they also offer original and nuanced analysis of how these processes can be experienced differently dependent on geography, political context and local resistance. This collection critically reflects on a number of globally significant topics including thevilification of Muslim minorities, the portrayal of the refugee 'crisis' and the representations and resistance of Indigenous and Black communities. This volume demonstrates that processes of racialisation and criminalisation in media and the state cannot be understood without reference to how they are underscored and inflected by gender and power. Above all, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the resistance of racialised minorities in localised contexts across the globe: against racialisation and criminalisation and in pursuit of racial justice.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction; Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting and Waqas Tufail.- Chapter 2. Turning the Tables? Media Constructions of British Asians from Victims to Criminals, 1962 to 2011; Colin Webster.- Chapter 3. Cultural Repertoires and Modern Menaces: The Media's Racialised Coverage of Child Sexual Exploitation; Tina G. Patel.- Chapter 4. Media, State and 'Political Correctness': The Racialisation of the Rotherham Child Sexual Abuse Scandal; Waqas Tufail.- Chapter 5. The New Year's 2015/ 2016 public sexual violence debate in Germany: Media Discourse, Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Criminal Law; Ulrike M. Vieten.- Chapter 6. Culture, Media and Everyday Practices: Unveiling and Challenging Islamophobia; Fatima Khan and Gabe Mythen.- Chapter 7. Stupid Paki Loving Bitch: The Politics of Online Islamophobia and Misogyny; Katy Sian.- Chapter 8. 'Ta-Ta Qatada': Islamophobic Moral Panic and the British Tabloid Press; Anneke Meyer and Scott Poynting.- Chapter 9. Bordering on Denial: State Persecution, Border Controls and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis; Mike Grewcock.- Chapter 10. Social Death: the (White) Racial Framing of the Calais 'Jungle' and 'Illegal' Migrants in the British Tabloids and Right-wing Press; Monish Bhatia.- Chapter 11. Racism as a Crime in Britain's Right Wing Press; Kerry Moore and Katy Greenland.- Chapter 12. Closeness and Distance in Media Reports on the Trollhättan Attack; Marta Kolankiewicz.- v- Chapter 13. Racism, the Press and Black Deaths in Police Custody in the United Kingdom; Ryan Erfani-Ghettani.- Chapter 14. Indigenous People, Resistance and Racialised Criminality; Chris Cunneen.- Chapter 15. An Analysis of Anti-Black Crime Reporting in Toronto: Evidence from News Frames and Critical Race Theory; Wesley Crichlow and Sharon Lauricella.- Chapter 16. Contesting the Single Story: Collective Punishment, Myth-making and Racialised Criminalisation; Patrick Williams and Becky Clarke.- Chapter 17. The Figure of the 'Foreign Criminal': Race, Gender and the Foreign National Prisoner; Luke de Noronha.- Chapter 18. Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems; Vicki Sentas.