Entangled Webs: Forensic Facticity and the Construction of Police Work

Maurantonio, Nicole

doi:10.1080/10714421.2012.647285

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“…Maurantonio (2012) also explores the symbolic power of cops shows which she describes as the ‘product of the contests and negotiations’ (p. 4) between the police, those who depict them and the general public. She argues that cop show representations of police cause them to question their professional and personal value, ‘generating problematic consequences’ (p. 4) for their self-image.…”

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“…Drawing on a previous study (Stephenson, 2019) of ‘cop shows’, a term used by Maurantonio (2012) to describe drama and reality television series featuring policing, this article examines audience reception – in particular, that of an audience comprising only serving and retired police officers and policing students – to understand how Australian police interpret their televisual image.…”

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Police as cop show viewers

Stephenson¹

2021

Crime, Media, Culture

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Despite the popularity of Australian television drama and reality series featuring police, there has been a paucity of research into what these programs communicate about real world policing. These ‘cop shows’ are productive forms of public relations for police agencies, particularly the co-produced reality TV variety, and as such are valuable broadcasting and policing commodities. As complex audio-visual texts, cop shows can generate myriad meanings and messages. As cultural objects these programs also rely upon and generate expressions of national identity. Drawing on 25 interviews with policing students and serving and retired police officers, this qualitative research provides insight into how prospective, current and retired police interpret televisual representations of the profession. It was found that interviewees more deeply embedded in the police culture were more cynical of the public relations messages and contested the role of women, while aspirants to the profession were more likely to endorse depictions of a diverse work force. Although interviewees regarded Australian cop shows as reflecting national attributes and cultural context, they reflected on aspects of cop shows produced in other countries to articulate what locally produced cop shows were not.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Police as cop show viewers

Stephenson¹

2021

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…Lovell (2003) describes this cultural reflexivity as the mutual reinforcement of police performance, shown in what police actually do, and police performances, manifested in the construction of police work (Lovell, J. S. 2003). Also, Maurantonio (2012) explored the effect of cop shows on police performance in the real world. He found that the legitimacy afforded to television cops due to the perceived verisimilitude of modern portrayals "serves to reinforce the significance of police work to the proper functioning of society" while simultaneously creating false expectations of police capabilities (Maurantonio, N. 2012).…”

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The Image of the Egyptian Security Forces Representatives as Depicted in Egyptian Movies After the Revolution of 25th January 2011 An Analytical Study

Attia

2020

مجلة البحوث الإعلامیة

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“…More recently, studies have examined perceptions of the accuracy of forensic dramas (Maeder and Corbett, 2015), as well as how judges (Hughes and Magers, 2007), prosecutors (Stevens, 2009), criminal investigators (Huey, 2010), police officers (Maurantonio, 2012), and other members of the criminal justice system (Wise, 2010) perceive the CSI effect. Other research has examined how community members perceive the reality of the CSI effect (Hayes and Levett, 2013), and if community members (Baskin and Sommers, 2010;Brewer and Ley, 2010), potential jurors (Hayes-Smith and Levett, 2011;Shelton, Kim, and Barak, 2006), or juror-eligible college students (Maeder and Corbett, 2015;Podlas, 2005;Schweitzer and Saks, 2007) are prone to the CSI effect.…”

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The CSI Effect, DNA Discourse, and Popular Crime Dramas*

Rhineberger-Dunn

Briggs

Rader

2016

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives Missing from the literature is an assessment of how forensic evidence, particularly DNA evidence, is portrayed across several fictional crime dramas, rather than just one drama, namely, CSI. The purpose of this article is to explore how DNA evidence is presented in four fictional crime dramas, the context in which it is discussed, and the impact DNA has on case clearance in these fictional dramas. Methods We drew a systematic sample by taking every fourth episode within each of four crime shows: CSI (Las Vegas), Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, and Without a Trace. Transcripts were created for the 117 included episodes. We used both qualitative and quantitative content analyses to analyze the discourse of DNA within these crime drama episodes. Results Our results indicate that police and forensic dramas both contain frequent references to DNA, while FBI dramas rarely discuss DNA, at least in any meaningful context. Additionally, DNA is not used to solve a majority of fictional victimizations in these dramas. Conclusions These results also provide context for future research on the CSI effect, particularly in terms of measuring crime show viewership variables.

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Entangled Webs: Forensic Facticity and the Construction of Police Work

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Police as cop show viewers

Police as cop show viewers

The Image of the Egyptian Security Forces Representatives as Depicted in Egyptian Movies After the Revolution of 25th January 2011 An Analytical Study

The CSI Effect, DNA Discourse, and Popular Crime Dramas*

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