Despite being an increasingly high profile subject, few publications address media representations of law and order head on. This book aims to meet this need by bringing together an important range of papers from leading researchers in the field, addressing issues of fictional, factual and hybrid representations of crime in the media.
Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest. This work brings together a range of papers from researchers addressing issues of fictional, factual, and hybrid representations in the media - the so called "docu-dramas" and "faction".