[Commlist] Comunicação e Sociedade | Call for papers | Crime, Justice and Media

  Comunicação e Sociedade: Call for papers | Crime, Justice and Media

*Editors*: Rafaela Granja (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal), Sílvia 
Gomes (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom) and Thais Sardá 
(Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom)

Issues associated with crime and justice are constantly at the centre of 
public debate. Police violence, criminal investigations, high-profile 
trials and even life inside prisons are a common focus of media 
attention. Both media and fictional representations of crime and justice 
make oppositions between collective security and human rights more 
visible. They also reify discourses that rely on notions of “us” and 
“others”. However, there is a lack of debate about the profound social 
inequalities (racial, gender, among others) that promote such social 
cleavages. These tensions are explored by social movements and 
activists, particularly on social media, exposing various forms of 
violence and crime (e.g., hate crimes, racial violence, etc.). However, 
people deprived of freedom are restricted from acting as agents in civic 
mobilization due to barriers in accessing information. In this thematic 
issue of /Comunicação e Sociedade/, we invite social sciences 
researchers to reflect on the various forms of interconnection and 
disconnection between crime, justice and media, focusing on one or more 
of the following topics:

– perceptions about crime and justice;

– media coverage of crime and high-profile criminal cases;

– police or judicial journalism;

– media trials;

– fictional portraits of crime and justice;

– revisiting the concept of moral panic;

– police violence, racism and exclusions;

– hate crime and hate speech;

– social movements and media coverage of justice;

– techno-optimism in fighting crime;

– representations of prisons and other contexts of deprivation of liberty;

– info-exclusion of people deprived of liberty.

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*KEY DATES*

*Proposals submission:* February 1 to March 31, 2022

*Notification of acceptance:* June 7, 2022

*Deadline for the submission of the final article (PT and 
EN):* September 20, 2022

*Publication*: December 2022

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*LANGUAGE*

Papers can be submitted in English or Portuguese. At the peer-review 
process, the authors of selected articles should ensure the translation 
of their articles. The editors shall have the final decision on the 
publication of the article.

*EDITING AND SUBMISSION*

/Comunicação e Sociedade/ is an open-access academic journal, operating 
according to demanding standards of the peer-review system, and operates 
on a double-blind peer-review process. After submission, each paper will 
be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it 
according to its academic quality, originality and relevance to the 
objectives and scope of the theme.

Originals should be submitted through the journal’s website 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/>. When accessing /Comunicação e 
Sociedade/ for the first time, you must register before submitting your 
article (instructions to register here 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/user/register>).

Refer to the guidelines for authors here. 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/about/submissions>

For further information, please contact: 
(comunicacaoesociedade /at/ ics.uminho.pt). 
<mailto:(comunicacaoesociedade /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>

No payment from the authors will be required.**

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