Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1977 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Introduction; 1 Crime reporting and mass communications research; 2 Press ideology: the politics of professionalism; 3 Blood-soaked cheque-books: the golden age of crime reporting; 4 Bombers, muggers and thugs: the press and the violent society; 5 Black sheep and rotten apples: the press and police deviance; 6 Yard man speak with forked tongue?: sources and the management of news; 7 Conclusion; Chronology of Law-and- Order News 1945-1975
