Introduction
Part1: Understanding Media
1. The Public Sphere: An Encyclopaedia Article
2. The Medium is the Message 3. A Propaganda Model 4. Encoding/Decoding
5. An Introduction to the Information Age
6. Simulacra and Simulations
7. Neuromancer
Part2: Researching Media
8. Research Approaches 9. Reading the News
10. The Determination of News 11. Dimensions of Genre 12. Frame Analysis 13. The Debate About Media Influence
14. Researching Cybercultures
Part3: Crime, Newsworthiness and News
15. Press Ideology: The Politics of Professionalism
16. The Construction of News
17. What Makes Crime News?
18. The Social Production of News
19. The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice
20. Recovering Blackness - Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail’s Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence
21. She Should be Punished’: The 1983-1984 New Bedford ‘Big Dan’s’ Gang Rape’
Part4: Crime, Entertainment and Creativity
22. The Typology of Detective Fiction
23. The Dialectics of Dixon: The Changing Image of the TV Cop
24. From the Hard-Boiled Detective to the Pre-Crime Unit 25. Casino Culture: Media and Crime in a Winner-Loser Society
26. The Gangster Film: Genre and Society 27. Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and Consumer Culture
28. Crimes of Style
Part5: Effects, Influence and Moral Panic
29. Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models
30. The Worrying Influence of ‘Media Effects’ Studies
31. From Bad Media Violence Research to Good: A Guide for the Perplexed
32. Living with Television: The Violence Profile
33. From Imitation to Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship Between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime 34. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers 35. Rethinking "Moral Panic" for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds’
Part6: Cybercrime, Surveillance and Risk
36. Panopticism
37. The Viewer Society
38. The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of CCTV
39. (S)talking in Cyberspace, Virtuality, Crime and Law
40. Governance and the Internet
41. Communicating the Terrorist Risk: Harnessing a Culture of Fear Mythen
42. Regarding the Torture of Others