Should individuals on American college campuses be permitted to carry concealed
weapons? This issue positions second Amendment liberty guarantees against personal …

More than 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since the
1980s yet press attention to this violence is relatively minimal. This paper compares local …

A mysterious green ooze is injected into a brightly illuminated and humming machine; 10s
later, a printout containing a complete biography of the substance is at the fingertips of an …

Around the world, police officers are travelling abroad to work. This might be a plane, train or
automobile journey to collect evidence on an unsolved murder. It might be a year's …

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught
in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year …

Through this study, we shed new light on a key line of inquiry for criminologists: the way the
media influence the public's understanding of crime and justice. We argue for expanding the …

Drawing on content analysis of 323 Los Angeles Times articles published between 1990
and 2015, this article examines how news reports represent sexual predator victims and …

The results of a mixed method study conducted on media coverage in the aftermath of the
2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba confirmed the hypothesis that prolonged …

The pressure on US media to maximize ratings and, therefore, profits can readily conflict
with objectivity in journalism (An & Bergen, 2007). With the exceptions of political firestorms …

This paper examines the rise of the real and simulated cadaver of scientific and forensic
investigation in popular culture and the cultural meanings of that ascent. While it spotlights …