‘Trial by media’: Policing, the 24-7 news mediasphere and the ‘politics of outrage’

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-46

  Greer, Chris ^a   McLaughlin, Eugene ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

24 7 news mediasphere; hierarchy of credibility; inferential structure; institutional racism; politics of outrage; Soham; trial by media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952298478     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480610387461     Document Type: Article

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