Cian Ó Concubhair

The Communicative Architecture of Policing

Community, Power and Legitimacy in the Age of 'New Media'

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on nearly a decade of research on police-media relations, and the first to undertake a deep ethnography of police communications and local news media in a single policing area, this book charts the emergence of an empowered professional police communicator class in policing rooted in the mass communications potential of social media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781032695679
• ISBN-10: 1032695676
• Artikelnr.: 73661239

Autorenporträt

Cian Ó Concubhair is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Maynooth University's School of Law & Criminology. Cian researches across criminal law, policing and media, with a particular focus on police legitimacy, police- media relations and the politics of criminal justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Outline
1. Crime
Policing and News Media
2. Approach in the Field
3. Constructing and Policing the Community
4. Audiences
Sources and Newsroom Values: Self-Legitimation in Contemporary Local Journalism
and its Crises
5. Constructing and Legitimating Police Communicator Identity
6. The Labour of Police Legitimation
7. The Architecture of Contemporary Police-Media Relations
8. Contemporary Police-Media Relations in the Governance Field: Community
Identity
and the Mechanics of Local Governing Power