Media, Crime and Racism is an unparalleled offering to the world of criminology and beyond. Unafraid to draw attention to the media and their failings, this compilation of essays is bold, critical and powerful. Varied in its subject matter and capturing cities worldwide, each essay offers an insight into the ways in which the media racialize crime and categorize and label certain social groups as criminals and a threat to society. It is timely, poignant and engages with contemporary issues, yet the collection remains responsive to the roots and historical context from which racialization has stemmed. Throughout the book there are references to the likes of the late Stan Cohen and Stuart Hall. Hall’s work on signifiers is a thread that weaves its way through many of the essays. They helpfully reaffirm the way his work from the late 1990s outlined the ‘practices of racialized exclusion’ and ‘racially-compounded disadvantage’ causing poverty, unemployment and underachievement (Hall, 1999: 188). The majority of the chapters use a qualitative lens to cover a variety of social groups and their portrayal in the media, from Asian Pakistani men in northern England, Muslim men in Germany, Black men in England and Canada to the Rohingya people of Myanmar. Some chapters offer an alternative to the emphasis on qualitative analysis. Chapter 11, by Kerry Moore and Katy Greenland, provides a content analysis of British newspapers, while Colin Webster in Chapter 2 takes us through a history of the representation of British Asian men over a period of 50 years. While the structure of the book is well mapped and there is a logical order to the essays it would have been useful in the first chapter to explain and justify how the topics were chosen. While there is much variety within the collection, the portrayal and criminalization of ethnic minority women in the media felt somewhat lacking. One chapter focuses on Muslim women but there are not many other chapters within the collection that give us an insight into the portrayal of minority ethnic women in the media and crime nexus. While it might be argued that the media and criminalization do not focus as heavily on women as on men, this needs to be stated and its nuances addressed in the volume. The book would have been enhanced by further delving into the experiences of 930023 TCR0010.1177/1362480620930023Theoretical CriminologyBook review book-review2020

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书评：Monish Bhatia、Scott Poynting 和 Waqas Tufail（编辑），媒体、犯罪和种族主义

媒体、犯罪和种族主义是犯罪学及其他领域无与伦比的产品。不怕引起人们对媒体及其失败的关注，这本散文集大胆、批判和有力。每篇文章的主题各不相同，并涵盖了世界各地的城市，每篇文章都提供了对媒体将犯罪种族化并将某些社会群体归类和标记为罪犯和对社会的威胁的方式的见解。它及时、尖锐并涉及当代问题，但该系列仍然对种族化的根源和历史背景做出回应。整本书都提到了已故的斯坦科恩和斯图尔特霍尔等人。霍尔关于能指的工作是贯穿许多论文的一条线索。他们重申了他 1990 年代后期的工作概述了导致贫困、失业和成绩不佳的“种族排斥做法”和“种族复合劣势”的方式（Hall，1999：188）。大部分章节使用定性镜头来涵盖各种社会群体及其在媒体中的描绘，从英格兰北部的亚裔巴基斯坦男性、德国的穆斯林男性、英国和加拿大的黑人男性到缅甸的罗兴亚人。有些章节为强调定性分析提供了替代方案。由 Kerry Moore 和 Katy Greenland 撰写的第 11 章提供了对英国报纸的内容分析，而第 2 章中的 Colin Webster 则带我们了解了 50 年来英国亚裔男性的代表性历史。虽然这本书的结构很好地映射并且文章有一个逻辑顺序，但在第一章中解释和证明如何选择主题是有用的。虽然该系列有很多种类，但媒体对少数民族女性的描绘和刑事定罪感觉有些欠缺。一章侧重于穆斯林妇女，但该系列中的其他章节并不多，可以让我们深入了解媒体和犯罪关系中对少数民族妇女的描绘。虽然可能会争辩说，媒体和刑事定罪不像男性那样关注女性，但需要说明这一点，并在本书中解决其细微差别。通过进一步深入研究 930023 TCR0010 的经验，本书将得到增强。