Index
Rosie Smith
(York St. John University, UK)
The Spectacle of Criminal Justice: Mass Media and the Criminal Trial
ISBN: 978-1-83982-823-2, eISBN: 978-1-83982-822-5
Publication date: 29 March 2022
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Smith, R. (2022), "Index", The Spectacle of Criminal Justice: Mass Media and the Criminal Trial, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-822-520221020
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2022 Rosie Smith
INDEX
Abjection
, 71–72
Absenteeism and failure
, 108–110
Accusations
, 82–83
Age of criminal responsibility
, 61
Ambiguous victimhood
, 90–95
Ambiguous victims
, 7, 8, 81, 122
Archival media data
, 57
Armstrong’s moon walk (1969)
, 23
Athens Paralympics (2004)
, 1
Audience
, 19
apathy
, 70
Auxiliary perpetrators
, 8, 98–99, 107, 122
absenteeism and failure
, 108–110
‘appropriate’ punishment and Scandinavian exceptionalism
, 112–117
Oslo bombing
, 110–112
Broadcast media
, 32
archives
, 80
Cable television
, 23
Capillary functioning of power
, 55
‘Carnivalesque’
, 27
Carnivals of death and punishment
, 15–19
Case study approach
, 4–5
Celebrity and spectacles of criminal justice
, 35
clinical expertise
, 56–58
collateral victims
, 37–45
Lindbergh Case
, 36–37
police expertise
, 45–55
scale of celebrity
, 35–36
Celebrity status of family
, 37
Childhood and spectacle of criminal justice
, 61–77
Civilising process
, 19–20
Clinical expertise
, 56–58
Clinical experts
, 9, 123
Collateral victims
, 7, 8, 37, 122
collectivity of grief
, 38–41
influence of media
, 41–45
Collectivity of grief
, 38–41
Colour technology
, 23
Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBSs)
, 36
Complexity of justice
, 119–121
Contempt of Court Act (1981)
, 3, 62
Contested terrain
, 106
Crime
, 15, 38
and media
, 26
visibility of
, 29
Criminal justice, 91, 98 (see also Spectacular justice)
clinical expertise
, 56–58
collateral victims
, 37–45
Lindbergh Case
, 36–37
police expertise
, 45–55
scale of celebrity
, 35–36
spectacle of
, 5
system
, 3
Criminal Justice Act (1925)
, 3, 62
Criminal Man
, 76
Criminal trials
, 3–4, 99
police and spectacle of
, 50–52
Criminal Woman
, 76
Criminality
, 6, 74, 76
public interest in
, 28
Criminology
, 119
bridging gap between death studies and
, 124
Gothic
, 76
Cultural criminology
, 27
Cultural Criminology
, 27
Cultural Criminology Unleashed
, 27
Culture of Control (Garland)
, 5, 94
Death
, 38, 74
bridging gap between criminology and death studies
, 124
carnivals of
, 15–19
public interest in
, 28
visibility of
, 29
Destruction, spectacles of
, 22
Detainment (Oscar-nominated short film)
, 63
Discipline and Punish (Foucault)
, 21, 75, 86, 93
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Foucault)
, 15
Domestic violence
, 94
Drama and spectacles of criminal justice
, 79
ambiguous victimhood
, 90–95
Arias case
, 79–80
inexpert experts
, 81–90
Edgework
, 27
Emotional reactions
, 38
Emotional togetherness
, 43
Enlightenment
, 19
Equality
, 113
Expert
, 9, 123
Failure, absenteeism and
, 108–110
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
, 6, 27
Formal notions of control and justice
, 5
French Revolution
, 21
Gender and spectacles of criminal justice
, 79
ambiguous victimhood
, 90–95
Arias case
, 79–80
inexpert experts
, 81–90
Ghoulish monster
, 77
Gothic and spectacular justice
, 75–77
Gothic monster
, 77
Guillotine
, 21
HLN After Dark: The Jodi Arias Trial (interactive programme)
, 82–83, 87–88, 91
Homicide
, 2
Humanism
, 113
Humanitarian narratives of justice
, 114
Hyperbolic disbelief
, 61
Ideal victims
, 61, 63–68
Ideal wounds
, 63–68
Ideology
masculinity, and spectacle
, 104–107
national identity, and spectacle
, 100–104
Idle Apprentice Executed at Tyburn, The (Hogarth)
, 89
Idle Prentice Executed at Tyburn, The
, 17
Imprisonment
, 114
Inexpert experts
, 9, 81–90, 123–124
Informal notions of control and justice
, 6
Inhuman perpetrators
, 8, 70–77, 122
International terror attacks
, 99
Internet Explorer
, 24
Investigation, police and spectacle of
, 47–50
James Bulger case study
, 63
Jurisprudence of sensitivity
, 85
Justice
, 5–6, 15, 74, 99
complexity of
, 119–121
humanitarian narratives of
, 114
Kidnapping
, 43
Lindbergh Case
, 36–37
collateral victimisation of
, 41
Lockerbie trial
, 29
London 2012 Olympic Games
, 1
Manchester Evening News
, 28
Manufacture of News, The
, 27
Masculinity
, 101
ideology, spectacle and
, 104–107
‘Mass Media and the Criminal Trial’
, 6
Mass media technology
, 25
Media
archives
, 5
crime and
, 26
technology
, 24, 38
Media spectacles
, 3, 23–24, 26, 47
of crime
, 28
Mortality
, 15
National Broadcasting Company
, 42
National identity and spectacle
, 100–104
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)
, 2
Newgate prison
, 22
‘Normal’ childhood behaviour
, 62
Norwegian justice system
, 99
O. J. Simpson murder trial
, 3
Olympic Games (1960)
, 23
Oscar Pistorius Trial, The
, 2
Oslo bombing
, 110–112
Panoptic power
, 26
Panopticism
, 25
Panopticon
, 20, 25
Perpetrator
, 8–9, 122
Pistorius, Oscar
, 1–2
Police expertise
, 45
justice, policing, and the spectacle of death
, 52–55
police and spectacle of criminal trial
, 50–52
police and spectacle of investigation
, 47–50
US police force
, 45–46
Police experts
, 9, 123
Policing the Crisis
, 6, 27
Political criminality
, 98–99
Political perpetrators
, 8–9, 98, 100, 122
ideology, masculinity, and spectacle
, 104–107
ideology, national identity, and spectacle
, 100–104
Politicised toxicity
, 99
Politics and spectacles of criminal justice
, 97
attack
, 97–98
auxiliary perpetrators
, 107–117
formal means of justice
, 99–100
political ideologies
, 98–99
political perpetrators
, 100–107
Power, capillary functioning of
, 55
Primary definers
, 47
Print media
, 32
archives
, 80
Prison system
, 22
Privatisation of punishment
, 21
Prohibition era (1919–1933)
, 46
Public harm
, 62
Public visibility of criminal trial
, 81
Punishment
, 62
carnivals of
, 15–19
Questions of justice
, 62
Quintessential victims
, 7–8, 63, 122
ideal victims and ideal wounds
, 63–68
and spectacles of justice
, 68–70
Reciprocity
, 43
Rise of the Network Society (Castells)
, 24
Sanitisation of penality
, 22
Scandinavian exceptionalism
, 112–117
Self-defence
, 97
Sensitivity
, 85
Social divisions
, 6
Social environments
, 25
Social life
, 24
substantial reorienting of
, 26
Social purity crusade
, 73
Society of the Spectacle
, 24
Solemnity of punishment
, 21
Spectacle evolution
carnivals of death and punishment
, 15–19
re-imagining spectacle in media world
, 23–32
retreat of spectacle
, 19–22
Spectacle of terror
, 97
Spectacular justice
, 4–5
conceptual toolkit
, 6
expert
, 9
inhuman perpetrators, gothic, and
, 75–77
perpetrator
, 8–9
victim
, 7–8
Synopticon
, 25
Technological literacy of masses
, 23
Terrorism and spectacles of criminal justice
, 97
attack
, 97–98
auxiliary perpetrators
, 107–117
formal means of justice
, 99–100
political ideologies
, 98–99
political perpetrators
, 100–107
Times, The
, 28
Torture, spectacles of
, 22
Transgression
, 27, 62
and spectacle of criminal justice
, 61–77
Transgressive Imaginations
, 71
US police force
, 45–46
US World Trade Centre attack
, 99
Victim, 122 (see also Collateral victims)
identity
, 81
quintessential
, 63–70
Victimisation
, 45, 61
Viewer Society, The
, 26
Vilification
, 62
Virtual collectivism
, 38
Wound culture
, 29, 62
- Prelims
- Introduction: Spectacular Justice
- Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Spectacle
- Chapter 2: Celebrity and Spectacles of Criminal Justice
- Chapter 3: Childhood, Transgression, and Spectacles of Criminal Justice
- Chapter 4: Gender, Drama, and Spectacles of Criminal Justice
- Chapter 5: Terrorism, Politics, and Spectacles of Criminal Justice
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Existing Legislation on the Role of Cameras in Courtrooms
- Bibliography
- Index