Media, Crime and Racism

Chapter 1. Introduction; Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting and Waqas Tufail.- Chapter 2. Turning the Tables? Media Constructions of British Asians from Victims to Criminals, 1962 to 2011; Colin Webster.- Chapter 3. Cultural Repertoires and Modern Menaces: The Media's Racialised Coverage of Child Sexual Exploitation; Tina G. Patel.- Chapter 4. Media, State and 'Political Correctness': The Racialisation of the Rotherham Child Sexual Abuse Scandal; Waqas Tufail.- Chapter 5. The New Year's 2015/ 2016 public sexual violence debate in Germany: Media Discourse, Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Criminal Law; Ulrike M. Vieten.- Chapter 6. Culture, Media and Everyday Practices: Unveiling and Challenging Islamophobia; Fatima Khan and Gabe Mythen.- Chapter 7. "Stupid Paki Loving Bitch": The Politics of Online Islamophobia and Misogyny; Katy Sian.- Chapter 8. 'Ta-Ta Qatada': Islamophobic Moral Panic and the British Tabloid Press; Anneke Meyer and Scott Poynting.- Chapter 9. Bordering on Denial: State Persecution, Border Controls and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis; Mike Grewcock.- Chapter 10. Social Death: the (White) Racial Framing of the Calais 'Jungle' and 'Illegal' Migrants in the British Tabloids and Right-wing Press; Monish Bhatia.- Chapter 11. Racism as a Crime in Britain's Right Wing Press; Kerry Moore and Katy Greenland.- Chapter 12. Closeness and Distance in Media Reports on the Trollhättan Attack; Marta Kolankiewicz.- v- Chapter 13. Racism, the Press and Black Deaths in Police Custody in the United Kingdom; Ryan Erfani-Ghettani.- Chapter 14. Indigenous People, Resistance and Racialised Criminality; Chris Cunneen.- Chapter 15. An Analysis of Anti-Black Crime Reporting in Toronto: Evidence from News Frames and Critical Race Theory; Wesley Crichlow and Sharon Lauricella.- Chapter 16. Contesting the Single Story: Collective Punishment, Myth-making and Racialised Criminalisation; Patrick Williams and Becky Clarke.- Chapter 17. The Figure of the 'Foreign Criminal': Race, Gender

Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University, UK

"Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting and Waqas Tufall deserve applause for producing such a diverse, rich and timely collection. It will prove invaluable to those researching crime and the media, and the social dynamics and structures of racial power and racism. With extraordinary foresight, the book also offers a valuable resource for making sense of today's turbulent world." (Jamie Bennett, Border Criminologies, law.ox.ac.uk, February 5, 2021)

"This book is a good read for journalism students who are of the minority, this can help further knowledge about media's coverage of minorities." (Morgan Jenkins, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2020)


"This powerful collection demonstrates how, in a neoliberal decentralised capitalist economic system, news organisations generate profits through racist, misleading, and often non-factual news, which contributes to the fabrication of moral panics and folk devils. The chapters in this collection are mostly supported by empirical studies and are often theoretically informed, which makes it an essential resource for criminologists exploring the connection between media, crime, and racism." (The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. 58 (4), 2019)

"Media, Crime and Racism, offers engaged scholarship that explores the complex processes through which the media racialises crime, and criminalises race, and the impact this has. ... Media, Crime and Racism is a very important book that encourages the reader to constantly make links between different communities across international contexts ... ." (Sophia Siddiqui, Race & Class, Vol. 61 (1), July-September, 2019)

"Media, Crime and Racism is a seminal contribution to this field of criminology, examining as it does the nexus between media and crime through the lens of racism. ... the book might be considered an important contribution towards theperformative turn in criminology." (Gabriella Szabó, Crime Media Culture, March 19,