The Civil Power of the News
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 7016
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-19381-2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030193836
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book analyses the civil power of the news to exercise judgements about matters of identity, legitimacy and risk and their influence on the boundary maintenance of civil society. It took eight years to research and write, drawing on extensive resources: National Newspaper Archive: nine national newspapers and 30 regional newspapers’ reports of the hunt for the murderer, his trial and execution throughout 1864; and collection and analysis of all the Home Office files at the National Archives, Kew about the murder and trial, official correspondence, warrants, criminal papers, appeals, minutes of evidence and over 200 letters from the public.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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