Crime News in Modern Britain Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010

'Those of us interested in how contemporary media construct criminal or deviant behaviour remain aware that this process has a long history. We are grateful for scholarly works which exhume history's implications for current preoccupations. Crime News in Modern Britain is one such work. For a decade the authors have analysed exhaustively local and national newspapers from the past. From that base they have compiled evidence about initial developments and subsequent changes in the authorship, sources and format of crime reporting. It is the first fully historical account of the nature of crime reporting over nearly two centuries.'

- Chas Critcher, Swansea University, UK