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Crime In The News

Crime in the news

Synopsis

Organized crime in Melbourne has openly been in the public and media area since the 1970’s. More recently, Melbourne has again been the focus of a six-year spate of alleged organized crime-related murders and brutal, audacious killings. Beginning with the 1998 murder of Alphonse Gangitano a suspected “organized crime boss”, a string of more than 24 unsolved killings ravaged Melbourne. The death of 36-year-old, convicted drug dealer and suspected murderer Jason Moran on June 21, 2003, who was shot in a van at a children’s football clinic in Essendon North with five children in the back of the car, took the killings to a new low.

How the media responds to and reports on crime is where my interest lies.

Introduction

The study of media representations of crime and deviance is already a well researched subject represented by many different academic disciplines such as media, criminological and sociological studies. Coupled with this is......


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Approximate Word Count: 2116
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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