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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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