Crime,_Media,_Culture
Crime, Media, Culture
Academic journal
Crime, Media, Culture is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering work at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style.
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The journal covers three broad substantive areas:
- The relationship between crime, criminal justice and media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies)
- The relationship between criminal justice and cultural dynamics (with a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style)
- The intersections of crime, criminal justice, media forms and cultural dynamics (including historical, political, situational, spatial, subcultural and cross-cultural intersections)
Established in 2005 by Jeff Ferrell, Yvonne Jewkes, and Chris Greer, the journal is currently edited by Sarah Armstrong, Katherine Biber, and Travis Linnemann.
Previous editors-in-chief have been:
- Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
- Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex)
- Jeff Ferrell (Texas Christian University and University of Kent)
- Chris Greer (City University London)
- Mark S. Hamm (Indiana State University)
- Yvonne Jewkes (University of Bath)