TY - BOOK ID - 78145235 TI - Captured by the media PY - 2006 SN - 1299285090 1134008759 1282077376 9786612077371 1843925761 9781134008759 9781843925767 9781134008827 1134008821 9781134008896 1134008899 1843921456 9781843921455 1843921448 9781843921448 9781299285095 9781282077379 6612077379 PB - Cullompton, UK Portland, Or. Willan DB - UniCat KW - Corrections. KW - Mass media and criminal justice. KW - Prisons. KW - Punishment. KW - Criminal justice and mass media KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Correctional services KW - Penology KW - Dungeons KW - Gaols KW - Penitentiaries KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisonment KW - Prison-industrial complex KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Mass media and criminal justice KW - Prisons KW - Punishment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145235 AB - This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its c ER -