The Language of Crime and Deviance An Introduction to Critical Linguistic Analysis in Media and Popular Culture

Mayr and Machin's razor-edged analysis slices through the visual and linguistic obfuscations that make up mediated constructions of crime, in the process confirming that these ideological formations matter more than we might imagine. On the whole, The Language of Crime and Deviance constitutes an invaluable intellectual and methodological armamentarium for scholars in criminology, media studies, and related fields just the thing for a surgical disassembling of mediated discourse around crime and justice.--Sanford Lakoff