Law and Justice as Seen on TV

by Elayne Rapping

Book Overview

Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together the various strands--media history and analysis, legal history and policy, and the national turn to the political right in the last decades--which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775616
• ISBN13: 9780814775615
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Timely and perceptive look at TV's links to law

I found this book to be extrmely informative and insightful about the way that today's TV shows focusing on the legal system run surprisingly parallel to the actual ways in which our criminal justice sytem has shifted from a liberal concern for civil liberties and defendants rights to an increasingly punitive focus on punishment and the presumption of guilt. Rapping has a really clear and readable writing style unusual for academics. I would recommend this anyone interested media and/or criminal and legal issues