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"The Danish media landscape, renowned for its commitment to ethical journalism, faces challenges when covering sensational crimes, often leading to breaches of established ethical codes. This research paper investigates the dynamics of sensationalism in crime reporting within Denmark, focusing on the ethical codes that are most susceptible to violations. Using the 'Submarine Case' as a case study, the paper explores how media coverage of sensational crimes can lead to ethical code breaches, with a specific emphasis on codes related to court reporting, family circumstances, and public interest. Keywords: Sensational Crime, Media Ethics, Danish Press Council"

This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime. It includes empirical research on migrants and crime to explore the risk and realities of crime and migration, as well as how mass media in different regions of the world has covered violent acts that have involved migrants (as victims or aggressors). The chapters are written by authors from various countries including the UK, Turkey, Slovenia, Iraq, Albania, Chile, the Republic of Moldavia, and Romania, and from different fields of research including: criminology, sociology, political sciences and communication. They bring to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be taken and developed further. This volume allows readers to explore the impact of migration on crime.

This article examines the portrayal of Russian organised crime in the Western and Russian media and how these representations reaffirm orthodox interpretations of the 'mafia', particularly those produced in the US. The influential Kefauver Committee hearings in the early 1950s limited the notion of organised crime to ethnicity and conspiratorial syndicates, while Hollywood films helped to disseminate this interpretation universally. Although generally discredited by criminologists from the 1970s, this populist notion of 'mafia' has been given a new lease of life through the emergence and proliferation outside the former Soviet Union, of Russian organised crime. Already conversant with Cold War rhetoric and the simplistic dichotomy between capitalism and communism, the media offers an equally prejudiced and simplistic interpretation of the Russian 'mafia' and threatens to obfuscate and consequently exacerbate the actual dangers presented by its proliferation.

This book examines how hate crime, as a contemporary legal concept, is introduced and represented in Turkish public discourse. The study addresses questions of how effective the hate crime debate in Turkey has been in identifying bias-motivated violent incidents and how social institutions perceive hate crimes and influence the related debates instigated by social movement actors.First of all, the study explores the movement against hate crime in Turkey, and argues that hate crime has operated as an umbrella term, diverting distinct identity movements into dialogue and collaboration, but has also created a partial collective identity. Thereafter, to grasp the repercussions of the emerging anti-hate crime movement in the public discourse, the book focuses on the media and parliament. Accordingly, media and the governing bodies, in both direct and indirect ways, are shown here to constitute an impediment to the recognition of bias and prejudices.

Theorizing media and crime -- The construction of crime news -- Media and moral panics -- Media constructions of children : 'evil monsters' and 'tragic victims' -- Media misogyny : monstrous women -- Police, offenders and victims in the media -- Crime films and prison films -- Crime and the surveillance culture -- The role of the Internet in crime and deviance -- (Re)conceptualizing the relationship between media and crime

The news media are a vital part of the process by which individuals' private experiences with crime -- as victims or offenders -- are transformed into public issues. The social construction of crime problems may be understood as reflecting the types of relationships that link news agencies to their sources, & the organizational constraints that structure the news-gathering process. How the news media collect, sort, & contextualize crime reports help to shape public consciousness regarding crime. Regarding the question of whether media attention promotes fear of crime, it is likely that the most significant effects of media reporting are broadly ideological, rather than narrowly attitudinal. By restricting the terms of discussion, the news media facilitate the marginalization of competing views regarding crime & its solution. Adapted from the source document.

This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and seeks to explore both dominant and marginalised points of view. The authors take a cross-disciplinary approach, utilising analytical tools from across the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, literary and media studies, and cultural criminology. It will appeal to students, academics and policy-makers with an interest in human trafficking and its depiction in the modern day.

Intro -- Editor's Preface, Acknowledgments and Recommendations -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A Critical Review -- Introduction -- The Story and Truth(s) of Human Trafficking -- Simplification -- Types of Trafficking -- Victims and Traffickers -- Causes of Trafficking -- Framing -- Effects of Misrepresentation on the Directly Affected -- The Victim Hierarchy -- Criminalisation -- Secondary Victimisation -- Socio-Political Causes and Effects of Misrepresentation -- The Focus on Female Victims and Sex Trafficking -- The Lack of Focus on Labour Trafficking and Domestic Trafficking -- Global and Local Politics (as Cause and Effect) -- Secondary Exploitation -- Conclusion -- In this Collection -- References -- Chapter 2: 'Call for Purge on the People Traffickers': An Investigation into British Newspapers' Representation of Transnational Human Trafficking, 2000-2016 -- Introduction -- Data Collection -- The Corpus -- Diachronic Change and Spike Sample Corpus Construction -- Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis -- Results -- Metaphors -- Naming and Describing HT -- Trafficking and Smuggling -- Description of Victims/Survivors -- Description of Traffickers and Related HT-Perpetrators -- Agency and Focus -- Modality -- Speech and Writing Presentation -- Multimodality -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Not All Human Trafficking is Created Equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts-Narratological and Media Studies Approaches -- Introduction -- Fabula: What to Choose for the News? -- Arrests and Reports on Criminal Acts -- Court Proceedings -- Official Reports on HT -- Planned Responses to HT -- HT-Related Public Events -- Personal Experience/Victim Targeting and Victim Profiling.

The news media are a vital part of the process by which individuals' private troubles with crime—as victims or offenders—are transformed into public issues. The social construction of crime problems may be understood as reflecting the types of relationships that link news agencies to their sources, and the organizational constraints that structure the news-gathering process. The ways in which the news media collect, sort, and contextualize crime reports help to shape public consciousness regarding which conditions need to be seen as urgent problems, what kinds of problems they represent, and, by implication, how they should be resolved. While much attention has been focused on the ways in which media attention to crime influences the fear of crime, it is likely that the most significant effects of media reporting are broadly ideological rather than narrowly attitudinal. By restricting the terms of discussion, the news media facilitate the marginalization of competing views regarding crime and its solution.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Overview -- Chapter 2. Holy War in the Media: Images of Jihad -- Chapter 3. Between Enemies and Traitors: Black Press Coverage of September 11 and the Predicaments of National "Others" -- Chapter 4. Commodifying September 11: Advertising, Myth, and Hegemony -- Chapter 5. Rituals of Trauma: How the Media Fabricated September 11 -- Part II: News Texts and Cultural Resonance -- Chapter 6. "America under Attack": CNN's Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11 -- Chapter 7. Internet News Representations of September 11: Archival Impulse in the Age of Information -- Chapter 8. Reporting, Remembering, and Reconstructing September 11, 2001 -- Chapter 9. Creating Memories: Exploring How Narratives Help Define the Memorialization of Tragedy -- Part III: Popular Narratives -- Chapter 10. Step Aside, Superman... This Is a Job for [Captain] America! Comic Books and Superheroes Post September 11 -- Chapter 11. Of Heroes and Superheroes -- Chapter 12. Narrative Reconstruction at Ground Zero -- Chapter 13. Agony and Art: The Songs of September 11 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Contributors.