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Entertaining Crime

SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL ISSUES
An Aldine de Gruyter Series o f Texts and Monographs
SERIES EDITOR
Joel Best
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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Anne E. Figert, Women and the Ownership of PMS: Structuring a Psychiatric Disorder

Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender (editors), Entertaining Crime: Television Reality Programs

James A. Holstein, Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment

James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (editors), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory

Gale Miller and James A. Holstein (editors), Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory

Philip Jenkins, Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain

Philip Jenkins, Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide

Valerie Jenness, Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective

Valerie Jenness and Kendal Broad, Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence

Stuart A. Kirk and Herb Kutchins, The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

John Lofland, Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

Bruce Luske, Mirrors of Madness: Patrolling the Psychic Border

Leslie Margolin, Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children

Donna Maurer and Jeffery Sobal (editors), Eating Agendas: Food and Nutrition as Social Problems

Gale Miller, Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy

Dorothy Pawluch, The New Pediatrics: A Profession in Transition

Erdwin H. Pfuhl and Stuart Henry, The Deviance Process (Third Edition)

William B. Sanders, Gangbangs and Drivebys: Grounded Culture and Juvenile Gang Violence

Theodore Sasson, Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem

Wilbur J. Scott, The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans since the War

Wilbur J. Scott and Sandra Carson Stanley (editors), Gays and Lesbians in the Military: Issues, Concerns, and Contrasts

Malcolm Spector and John I. Kitsuse, Constructing Social Problems

Robert A. Stallings, Promoting Risk: Constructing the Earthquake Threat

Frank J. Weed, Certainty of Justice: Reform in the Crime Victim Movement

Rhys Williams (editor), Cultural Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth

ENTERTAINING CRIME

Television Reality Programs

Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender
Editors

About the Editors

Mark Fishman is Associate Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Dr. Fishman is the author of Manufacturing the News, and numerous journal articles related to crime news.

Gray Cavender is Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University. Dr. Cavender is co-author of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond.

First published 1998 by Transaction Publishers

Published 2017 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Entertaining crime : television reality programs / Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender, editors.
p. cm. (bocial problems and social issues)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-202-30615-1 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-202-30616-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Reality television programsHistory and criticism. 2. Crime in television. I. Fishman, Mark, 1947- . II. Cavender, Gray,
1947- . III. Series.
PN1992.8.R43E58 1998
364dc21

98-11941

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-202-30616-2 (pbk)

For Pam, Laura, and Nancy

Contents

Gray Cavender and Mark Fishman

Mary Beth Oliver and G. Blake Armstrong

R. Emerson Dobash, Philip Schlesinger, Russell Dobash, and C. Kay Weaver

Mark Fishman

Gray Cavender

Aaron Doyle

Pamela Donovan

Paul G. Kooistra, John S. Mahoney, and Saundra D. Westervelt

Dianne Cyr Carmody

Chris Brants

Hugh Dauncey

I
Introduction

1
Television Reality Crime Programs: Context and History

GRAY CAVENDER and MARK FISHMAN

Beginning in the late 1980s, a new trend appeared on television that has continued to the present: reality programs. There are a variety of these programs. Some, like "Geraldo," feature angry confrontations between former lovers or children who claim to be satanists. "Unsolved Mysteries" features segments on UFOs, the outlaw Billy the Kid, and crime. Others, programs like "America's Most Wanted," are only about crime. The chapters in this volume are about television reality crime programs.

Television programming can be divided into various genres or categories. For example, TV programs could be categorized as situation comedies, police shows, science fiction series, news, talk shows, or game shows. A simpler way of categorizing programs is to make a distinction between fact and fiction. Programs like "The X-Files" or "Seinfeld" are fictional, while "The CBS Evening News" and news magazines like "60 Minutes" claim to present information about real people and events. Other programs are somewhere between TV fiction and the reality of the news. Game shows and late night talk shows (e.g., Letterman and Leno) are not fiction, but neither are they the news; they are entertainment programming.

Television reality programs are especially hard to categorize because they blur the line between news and entertainment; some even blur the line between fact and fiction. Programs like "Flard Copy" cover real people; often these are celebrities, although occasionally, as in the coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial, stories are about celebrities and crime. Programs like "Rescue 911" and "America's Most Wanted" reenact actual events.

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