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

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Paul Mason