Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: The Media

28/02/12

Australia. Department of Communications, Policy Background Paper No.3, June 2014.

Williams, A 2018, 'Genoa: notes on a disaster', Spiked, viewed 23 August 2018

Jones, T 2018, 'Mafia blamed for using ‘weakened cement’ on Italy’s infrastructure', News.com, viewed 23 August 2018

Caprani, C 2018, 'Genoa bridge collapse a sign of things to come if infrastructure maintenance ignored' ABC, viewed 23 August 2018.

Australian Psychological Society Working Group of the Directorate of Social Issues 2013, Media representations and responsibilities: psychological perspectives, Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne

By Emma Partridge, The Age, 27/06/16.
A judge has launched an extraordinary tirade on media coverage of Harriet Wran saying intense focus, including on her family background and appearance, was disproportionate to the crime she committed.

By Eloise Brook , The Conversation, 08/10/14.
Yesterday, the Courier-Mail put the gruesome murder of Indonesian transwoman Mayang Prasetyo, killed by her partner Marcus Volker, on its front page. The article is breathtaking in its prurience and voyeurism...

The story of Louise: why the police have no case to answer, but I do By Paul Sheehan, The Age, 25/02/16

Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely explains lessons learnt from fake rape story, News.com, 05/07/16. The November 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine featured a distressing story about a young woman who had been raped. In harrowing detail, “Jackie” confided in one of the magazine’s senior writers, a journalist with more than 20 years’ experience.

Yahoo 7 News, 19/07/14.

Charles Watson, convicted of seven first-degree murders in 1971, does not dispute that he stabbed, shot and mutilated several people to death. Nor does he deny being "the right-hand man" of the cult leader and killer Charles Manson. But Watson, still serving a life term in Ione, California, does reportedly want to set the record straight on a couple of scores... The Age, 07/04/16