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On the Web
- The Right to More Meaningful Crime Coverage - Survey from Insite research group explores what viewers think of television news coverage and suggests ways local stations can make their crime coverage more effective.
- Crime, Media, Culture - Primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry whose work is embedded in theories of social relations and change.
- Victims and the Media Program - Sponsored by the Michigan State University's School of Journalism; seeks to educate journalists and jouranlism students about victims and victim issues. Publications, information about outreach programs, and related links.
- Cursor - A media criticism site that aims to "examine and recognize the public's wide complicity in the media's crimes of absurdity, inanity, and pandering and to take a look at our ongoing obsession with the cult of media personality".
Wikipedia Articles
- Criminologist - A criminologist is often defined as someone who studies the etiology of crime, criminal behavior, types of crime, and social, cultural and media reactions to crime. The term criminologist generally refers to someone who does scholarly, scientific and professional study concerning the aetiology, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency, measurement of crime, law enforcement, judicial, and correctional systems.
- Gangs in England - Gangs in England are present in several cities, most notably London, Manchester, Birmingham and more recently in areas of Bradford and Liverpool, three quarter of gang related crime particularly gun crime is centred around London, Birmingham, and Manchester, most media coverage in gang crime in the UK surround these three cities. They have also been media coverage in previous years of Leeds, Bristol and Nottingham although to a far lesser extent.
- Real time crime center - The first centralized technology center for the NYPD (New York Police Department), whose primary purpose is to give field officers and detectives comprehensive, instant information to help identify patterns and stop emerging crime. The Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is the first of its law enforcement technology center kind anywhere in the world although many fictionalized centers have been portrayed in movies and other fictional media.
- Crime Stoppers International - Crime Stoppers International Foundation or CSI Foundation (CSI) is an umbrella organization that aims to spread the Crimestoppers program in countries around the world. Crimestoppers is a program designed to utilize the media and other resources to entice information from the public that can facilitate police investigations.
- Problems of Baltimore City Police - During the past generation, the Baltimore Police Department has faced a lot of criticism from local media, elected officials, and citizen advocacy groups. The criticism has pertained to the high crime rate in the city of Baltimore, which in some years has been ranked among the highest in the nation, numerous arrests of innocent citizens for seemingly minor offenses, and the failure to sufficiently assist victims of crime.