Law-and-Order News

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1977 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Introduction; 1 Crime reporting and mass communications research; 2 Press ideology: the politics of professionalism; 3 Blood-soaked cheque-books: the golden age of crime reporting; 4 Bombers, muggers and thugs: the press and the violent society; 5 Black sheep and rotten apples: the press and police deviance; 6 Yard man speak with forked tongue?: sources and the management of news; 7 Conclusion; Chronology of Law-and- Order News 1945–1975