This tense contradiction cuts both ways. As Stuart Hall and his colleagues detailed in their pathbreaking book Policing the Crisis now more than 40 years ago, it is the sensationalism, violence and moral spectacle of crime that underpins its newsworthiness, which is why person-to-person crimes like murder and assault have always been so overrepresented in crime reporting.
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