Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century London
Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century London
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十八世纪末十九世纪初伦敦的报纸报道以及对犯罪和司法的态度
DOI：
10.1017/s0268416007006194
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发表时间：
2007
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0.9
通讯作者：
P. King
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作者：
P. King
在18世纪的最后30年里，随着其他关于犯罪的印刷信息来源，如《普通人对被处决罪犯生活的描述》失去了读者，报纸逐渐主导了关于犯罪的印刷讨论。然而，尚未对报纸报道犯罪和刑事司法问题的总体性质进行实质性研究。本研究以18世纪80年代至世纪早期的伦敦新闻为研究对象，旨在探讨一系列问题，包括犯罪和司法报道的结构、法律和秩序新闻的选择性以及不同时期的叙事类型和话语结构。特别是，它强调了报纸对犯罪报道的多声、零星、简短和有时混乱的风格，在暴力犯罪的普遍性、治安和刑罚机构的有效性以及法院司法的质量等问题上，造成了各种不同的、往往相互矛盾的信息。印刷文字在法律和秩序问题上的整合作用远不如历史学家有时所认为的那样。
As other sources of printed information about crime, such as the Ordinary's Accounts of the lives of executed criminals, lost their audience in the final third of the eighteenth century, newspapers came increasingly to dominate printed discussions of crime. However, no substantial study of the overall nature of newspaper reporting on crime and criminal justice issues has yet been undertaken. By focusing on the London press from the 1780s to the early years of the nineteenth century, this study aims to address a range of questions about the structure of crime and justice reporting, about the selectivity of law and order news and about the types of narratives and discursive structures that can be found at different periods. In particular it highlights the ways in which the multi-vocal, sporadic, brief and sometimes chaotic styles of crime reporting in newspapers created a kaleidoscope of different and often contradictory messages about such issues as the prevalence of violent crime, the effectiveness of policing and penal institutions and the quality of justice meted out by the courts. The printed word had a much less integrative role in relation to law and order issues than historians have sometimes suggested.