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JALE1054 Crime & the Media

Society’s views of crime & media 2025, T1

Keyword Searching on the Library Catalogue
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The search described below should be linked above. However, if the search does not show any results, follow these steps.
Ensure you are on the advanced search page.
Select articles in the material type box.
Change the word contains to 'is exact' using the options to the left of the first search box and then type these words into the blank box next to it: news media
Change the word contains to 'is exact' using the options to the left of the first search box and then type these words into the blank box next to it: public attitudes
Click on + add a new line and enter these words: crime OR justice
Click on + add a new line and enter this word: Australia
Click the search button.
After the results have loaded, change the date range box on the left to 2002 (so that the date range reflects the last 20 years).
Scroll down on the left, select the peer reviewed articles option and apply the change.
Library Catalogue Search: Articles
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Library advanced search page >
Select articles in the material type box >
Search box 1: crime
Search box 2: media
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Search box 3: public opinion
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Search box 4: Australia
After the results load, change the date range on the left to 2014-2024 and apply the change.
Select peer reviewed articles and apply the change.

Books from Ebook Central
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Try the following keyword search:
media and crime
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Click on the Read Online button.

Note:when you log into a book, if the table of contents looks scrambled, click on the icon iii lying on it's side (above the star) to reset them.

Search for the following book title:
- Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology 6th Edition (see ch. 28)

Articles from the Australian Institute of Criminology
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Search for the following articles:
- (Mis) perceptions of crime in Australia

Keyword Searching in the Australasian Legal Scholarship Library (AustLII)
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Try the following keyword search:
media and homicide
media and crime and public opinion

Keyword Searching on SAGE
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Try the following keyword search:
media consumption AND perceptions of crime

Taylor & Francis
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Try the following keyword search:
crime perception media
crime perception news
crime perception "social media" news
'crime reporting" news impact
"crime reporting" social media impact
media Jill Meagher
Some results will appear but click on the 'Only show content I have full access to' (on the left hand side of the screen) and wait for the results to reload (a few seconds). You will be able to open any articles with a green ticked section or yellow padlocked section in the lower right hand corner of each record.

Google Scholar
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Search for the following articles:
- Crime and its fear in social media
- The media and attitudes towards crime and the justice system
- If it Bleeds, it Leads: Sensational Reporting, Imperfect Inference and Crime Policy
- Following# JillMeagher: Collective meaning-making in response to crime events via social media
- "Crime perception and reality" (see article by Weatherburn et al.).
- When law-and-order politics fail: media fragmentation and protective factors that limit the politics of fear
- Crime and its fear in social media
- Crime news consumption and fear of violence: The role of traditional media, social media, and alternative information sources
- Murder she watched: Does watching news or fictional media cultivate fear of crime
- 'Nobody feels safe': Vulnerability, fear and the micro-politics of ordinary voice in crime news television

Note: When using Google Scholar, if an article has a link to the right, such as [PDF] researchgate.net, it is available for free. Click on the link to the right to open the article.
Most of the referencing information for these publications can be found by clicking on the little quote mark under each record. If some of this information is missing, check the headers and footers of the article you are reading.