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Competing discourses and cultural intelligibility: Familicide, gender and the mental illness/distress frame in news 竞争话语和文化可理解性:新闻中的家庭谋杀、性别和精神疾病/痛苦框架

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211009275

Denise Buiten, Georgia Coe

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引用次数: 2

Familiar felons: Gendered characterisations and narrative tropes in media representations of offending women 1905–2015 熟悉的重罪犯:1905-2015年媒体对犯罪女性的性别特征和叙事修辞

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-11 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211005512

Tua Sandman

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引用次数: 3

Police as cop show viewers 警察作为警察向观众展示

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211005520

Antony Stephenson

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引用次数: 0

Book Review: Brendan McQuade, Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision 书评:Brendan McQuade，《安抚国土:情报融合与大众监督》

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-24 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211005926

Marnie Ritchie

引用次数: 0

Extreme dwelling: Assembling domus horribilis 极端居住：组装恐怖圆顶

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-23 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211004664

E. Campbell

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引用次数: 1

‘I Am That Girl’: Media reportage, anonymous victims and symbolic annihilation in the aftermath of sexual assault 《我是那个女孩》:媒体报道、匿名受害者和性侵犯后的象征性湮灭

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211002246

Jessica C Oldfield, D. McDonald

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引用次数: 4

Anatomy of a rape: Sexual violence and secondary victimization scripts in U.S. film and television, 1959–2019 剖析强奸:1959-2019年美国电影和电视中的性暴力和二次受害者剧本

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-10 DOI: 10.1177/17416590211000388

Jackie Hogan

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引用次数: 6

Film review: Lars von Trier (dir.) The House That Jack Built 影评:拉斯·冯·提尔(导演)杰克盖的房子

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1741659019889300

G. Maglione