The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crime, Media and Popular Culture is a collection of over 120 entries written by an assembly of nearly 200 leading international scholars. It asks how do people imagine crime and punishment? How do they go about thinking of deviance and reactions to it? To answer this, contributors look at media influences on the ways people think about crime and punishment ¿ influences that include photography, movies, newspapers,detective novels, television, graphic arts, broadsides, myth, paintings, murals, the internet, and social media. It offers a foundational space for understanding the cultural life, imaginative force, and power of crime and punishment.