[ecrea] crime and media event NTU 15 November

Crime and Media: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives



Location: Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, 
NG11 8NS



Date: Friday 15 November 2013

Time: 9.30-4.30

Room: GEE 004



Further helpful details and full abstracts can be found at: 
http://inequalityculturedifferencentu.blogspot.com/

This event is free but if you plan to attend please email: 
(simon.cross /at/ ntu.ac.uk)



9.30-9.55 Registration.



10.00-11.15 Panel 1

Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Department of Criminology, University of Leicester

Title: Punishment in black and white: penal ‘hell-holes’, popular media 
and mass incarceration.

suggests that not only can the prison be understood through the lens of 
darkness and lightness, Heaven and Hell, but that such metaphors serve 
to justify and authorize the prison as hell-hole.



Dr Maggie Wykes, School of Law, University of Sheffield

Title: What’s law gotta do with it? Comparing the failure to 
successfully prevent or prosecute sexual violence in England and South 
Africa.



11.15-11.45 Refreshments



11.45-1.00 Panel 2

Dr Judith Rowbotham, Director SOLON, London.

Title: A ‘Pressing’ Problem – Does Prison Work? Victorian Discussions on 
Penal Servitude and Their Modern Echoes



Dr Samantha Pegg, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University

Title: Rationalising the Irrational – Victorian Print Presentations of 
Insanity Pleas



Lunch: 1.00-1.55



2.00-3.30 Panel 3

Dr Simon Cross, Department of Media, Nottingham Trent University

Forces of Darkness: Media reporting of Jimmy Savile’s life, death and 
life-after-death



Lieve Gies, Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester

Title: An anti-human rights culture? The popular press and the Human 
Rights Act



3.30-3.55 Refreshments



4.00-4.45 Closing address by Prof Graham Murdock, Department of Social 
Sciences, Loughborough University.

Title: Fear and Loathing in Cleveland: The Prehistory of Deviancy 
Amplification





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