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  • Meaning-making and crime drama: the case of criminology students

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    Wimshurst, Kerry
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    Wimshurst, Kerry J.
    Year published
    2019
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    Criminology as a discipline maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mass media. Following from Clifford and White’s call for a more nuanced approach to media criminology, the first section of the article contextualises the present study by outlining the uneasy relationship between mainstream criminology and crime drama. The second section explores themes that arose during research that invited criminal justice students to create an outline for a television crime series that they would enjoy watching themselves. The experience of creating and talking about their crime fictions prompted the participants to reflect on aspects ...
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    Criminology as a discipline maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mass media. Following from Clifford and White’s call for a more nuanced approach to media criminology, the first section of the article contextualises the present study by outlining the uneasy relationship between mainstream criminology and crime drama. The second section explores themes that arose during research that invited criminal justice students to create an outline for a television crime series that they would enjoy watching themselves. The experience of creating and talking about their crime fictions prompted the participants to reflect on aspects of their own lives in some detail, but relatively little on crime per se. Crime drama, including their own creations, provided the participants with an anchor to talk broadly about subjectivities and identities. The piece concludes with observations on the place of emotional engagement when consumers reflect on crime drama.
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    Journal Title
    Media International Australia
    Volume
    171
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x18798703
    Copyright Statement
    Wimshurst, Kerry, Meaning-making and crime drama: the case of criminology students, Media International Australia, Vol 171, Issue 1, 2019. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Studies in Human Society
    Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
    Language, Communication and Culture
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385551
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