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Media representations of crime, both real and fictional, have a significant impact on our understandings of, and responses to, crime.  This subject introduces students to the relationship between the criminal justice system and media. Students will examine key criminological and media theories as applied to the relationship between media and crime, including representations of vulnerability, gender, race and class. This subject will also look at representations of crime in fiction. Students will analyse the representations of offenders, police, crime, prisons and the courts in image and text. The subject will also look at the impact of social media on the perception and representation of the criminal justice system.