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Tables of Contents for Policing and the Media
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction: reality, realism and representation
1
6
PART ONE FACTS
Contents and effects
7
20
Introduction
7
1
Contents
8
9
Effects
17
8
Conclusion
25
2
Proceeding in a promotional direction
27
22
Introduction
27
2
Policing and newsgathering - convergent construction work?
29
6
The professionalisation of police-media relations
35
7
Dominance or dependence?
42
7
PART TWO FICTIONS
Patrol, plods and coppers
49
19
Introduction
49
5
From Toy Town to Newtown: Z Cars
54
7
Gentler touches
61
1
Fitting The Bill
62
3
More friends from the North: Cops
65
3
Thief-takers and rule-breakers
68
19
Introduction
68
1
Rule-breakers
69
3
`We're the Sweeney son and we haven't had any dinner'
72
4
Rule-breaking, but not always ground-breaking
76
2
Crime and criminals
78
3
Portrayal of the police
81
2
The thin blurred line
83
3
Conclusion
86
1
The changing contours of TV copland
87
20
Introduction
87
2
No more heroes?
89
4
Representations of police culture and diversity
93
8
Reiner revisited: continuing the dialectic
101
6
PART THREE FACTIONS
That's infotainment
107
19
Introduction
107
1
Cops on the box
108
2
Police, camera, faction
110
1
The thin blue line
111
2
Crimewatch UK
113
3
Reality television: held in contempt?
116
4
Appeal and voyeurism
120
2
Panoptics and reality television
122
4
Trial by media -- courting contempt
126
17
Introduction
126
1
Rough justice or storm in a chequebook?
127
5
Court in camera or cameras in court?
132
3
Officer and a gentle man? The case of Mark Fuhrman
135
2
Camera-ready coppers?
137
2
Candid camera: other problems of cameras for the police
139
4
Summing up
143
5
References
148
13
Index
161