Media Representations of Police and Crime
This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leading British and European police dramas from the last twenty-five years, Colbran, a former scriptwriter, presents a revealing insight into police dramas, informed by media and criminological theory.
1st ed. 2014
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 01.01.2014
ISBN 9781349462810
Marianne Colbran is a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. Before becoming an academic, she was a scriptwriter and worked as a staff writer on the long running British police show, The Bill, for seven years and on the soap opera, Brookside, for two years.