@article{ref1,
title="Chibnall Revisited: Crime Reporters, the Police and 'Law-and-Order News'",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2010",
author="Mawby, Rob C.",
volume="50",
number="6",
pages="1060-1076",
abstract="The relationship between the police and the news media is an integral part of how police forces communicate into the public sphere. Using, as a benchmark, Chibnall's influential account of English crime reporting, Law-and-Order News, and drawing on Habermas's concept of the public sphere, this paper examines the contemporary police-media relationship. It analyses the rise of police corporate communications against the apparent decline of specialist crime reporting drawing on interviews with crime reporters, police communications managers and a survey of police forces in England, Wales and Scotland. The paper concludes that 'law-and-order news' currently remains contested but the relationship is increasingly asymmetrical in favour of the police.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/azq037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azq037"
}