Table of Contents

1. Turn on, tune in, slop out 2. The function of fiction for a punitive public 3. Red tops, populists and the irresistible rise of the public voice(s) 4. Crime sound bites: a view from both sides of the microphone 5. What works in changing public attitudes: findings from rethinking crime and punishment 6. Delivering death: capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media 7. 'Buried alive': representations of the separate system in Victorian England 8. Undermining the simplicities: the films of Rex Bloomstein 9. Creating a stir? Prisons, popular media and the power to reform 10. The violence of images: inside the prison TV drama Oz 11. The anti-heroines of Holloway : the prison films of Joan Henry and J. Lee Thompson 12. Relocating Hollywood's prison film discourse 13. Future punishment in American science fiction films