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There is now a long tradition of academic literature in media studies and criminology that has analysed how we come to think about crime, deviance and punishment. This book for the first time deals specifically with the role of language in this process, showing how critical linguistic analysis can provide further crucial insights into media representations of crime and criminals. Through case studies the book develops a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples taken from a range of media.   The Language of Crimeand Deviance covers spoken, written and visual media discourses and focuses on a number of specific areas of crime and criminal justice, including media constructions of young people and women; media and the police, ‘reality' crime shows; corporate crime; prison and drugs.It is therefore a welcome and valuable contribution to the fields of linguistics, criminology, media and cultural studies.

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Mayr and Machin's razor-edged analysis slices through thevisual and linguistic obfuscations that make up mediated constructions ofcrime, in the process confirming that these ideological formations matter morethan we might imagine. On the whole, TheLanguage of Crime and Deviance constitutes an invaluable intellectual andmethodological armamentarium for scholars in criminology, media studies, andrelated fields just the thing for a surgical disassembling of mediateddiscourse around crime and justice.--Jeff Ferrell, Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA

Mayr and Machin's razor-edged analysis slices through thevisual and linguistic obfuscations that make up mediated constructions ofcrime, in the process confirming that these ideological formations matter morethan we might imagine. On the whole, TheLanguage of Crime and Deviance constitutes an invaluable intellectual andmethodological armamentarium for scholars in criminology, media studies, andrelated fields--just the thing for a surgical disassembling of mediateddiscourse around crime and justice.--,

The Language of Crime and Deviance fillsan important gap, focusing on the language and discourses through whichcriminal behaviour is communicated to the public. Examining numerousapposite cases, Mayr and Machin illustrate how particular individualsand deviant behaviours have been transformed via the pages of the popularpress into dangers and risks. This book will be an especially usefulresource for students undertaking dissertations on media and crime, whofrequently want to employ critical discourse analysis but lack the tools to doso.--Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Department of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK

Mayr and Machin's razor-edged analysis slices through the visual and linguistic obfuscations that make up mediated constructions of crime, in the process confirming that these ideological formations matter more than we might imagine. On the whole, The Language of Crime and Deviance constitutes an invaluable intellectual and methodological armamentarium for scholars in criminology, media studies, and related fields just the thing for a surgical disassembling of mediated discourse around crime and justice.--Sanford Lakoff

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Andrea Mayr is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Her books include Prison Discourse (Palgrave, 2004), Language and Power (Continuum, 2008), and Language and Power: A Resourcebook for Students (Routledge, 2010). David Machin is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. His books include Global Media Discourse (2007), Introduction to Multimodal Analysis (2007) and News Production: Theory and Practice (2006).

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