Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Latest

Mason, P. (2009) ‘Towards a Dominant Regime of Representing the Prison’ in Albrecht, H., Serassis, T. and Kania, H. (eds.) /Images of Crime III: Representations of Crime and Criminals in Politics, Society, the Media, and the Arts/, Freiberg: Max Planck Institute, pp. 149-64.

Mason, P. (2009) ‘Crime, Media and the State’ in J. Sim, D. Tombs and D. Whyte (eds.) /State, Power, Crime: Critical Readings in Criminology/, London: Sage, pp. 343-70.

Mason, P. (2009) ‘Press and Release: News Coverage of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in M. Naughton (ed.) /The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Helping The Innocent? / Hants: Palgrave, /forthcoming/

Mason, P. and Monckton-Smith, J. (2008) ‘Conflation, Collocation and Confusion: British Press Coverage of the Sexual Murder of Women’, /Journalism,/ pp. 691-710

'The Media's Distorting Lens', Guardian Unlimited, 29th July 2008 at Guardian Unlimited

Books

Mason, P. (2006) (Ed.) Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Media Culture, Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Mason, P. (2003) (Ed.) Criminal Visions: Media Representation of Crime and Justice, Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Leishman, F. and Mason, P. (2003) Policing and the Media: Facts, Fiction and Faction, Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

  

Refereed Journal Articles

Mason P (2007) ‘Misinformation, Myth and Distortion: How the Press Support Mass Incarceration’, Journalism Studies, vol. 8 (3), pp. 481-96.

Mason P. (2006) ‘Prison Decayed: Cinematic Penal Discourse and Populism 1995 – 2005’, Social Semiotics, 16 (4), pp.607-25.

Mason, P. (2006) ‘Lies, Distortion and What Doesn’t Work: Monitoring Prison Stories in the British Media’, Crime, Media, Culture, vol. 3(2), pp.251-67.

Mason, P. (2006) ‘Prison Song’, Prison Service Journal, no. 167, pp. 43-47

Mason, P. (2000) ‘War Crime Television’, Communications Law vol.5 no.6, pp.206-212.

Mason, P. (2000) ‘Watching The Invisible: Televisual Portrayal of the British Prison 1980-1991' in International Journal of the Sociology of Law, vol. 28, pp.33-44

Mason, P. (2000) ‘Lights, Camera, Justice? Cameras in the Courtroom; an outline of the issues’ in Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an International Journal, 4 (2), pp.23-33

Mason, P. and Stepniak, D. (2000) ‘Court on the Web’ in Alternative Law Journal, 25 (2) pp.71-76.

Monographs

Reading the Bill: an analysis of the Thames Television Police Drama (1992) Bristol, Centre for Criminal Justice.

Funded Research

Moore, K., Mason, P and Lewis, J. (2008) Images of Islam in the UK: The Representation of British Muslims in the National Print News Media 2000-2008

Pilot Filming of Appellate Courts in England and Wales, Department of Constitutional Affairs (2004)

Witness Satisfaction: findings from nineteen courts in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Hampshire Criminal Justice Board (June, 2004)

The Use and Effects of the Rural Police Office - an evaluation report, Hampshire Constabulary (July, 2002)

The Impact of Electronic Media Coverage of Court Proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2000) ICTY/Centre for Media & Justice The Hague/Southampton

Chapters in Books

Mason, P. (2006) ‘Turn On, Tune In, Slop Out’ in Mason, P. (ed.) Captured By The Media: Prison Discourse in Media Culture, Willan Publishing, pp. 1-15.

Mason, P. (2006) ‘Relocating Hollywood’s Prison Film Discourse’ in Mason, P. (ed.) Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Media Culture, Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp.191-210.

Mason, P. and Leishman, F. (2003) ‘Opposing Factions? Reality television programming and British Policing’ in Forti, G. and Bertolino, M. (eds.) La Rappresentazione Televisiva del Crimine, Milan: Vita e Pensiero, pp.539-553.

Mason, P. (2003) ‘The Thin Blurred Line: reality television and policing’ in Tarling, R. (Ed.) Selected Papers from the British Criminology Conference, Keele 2002, Keele: British Society of Criminology.

Mason, P. (2003) ‘Screen Machine: Cinematic Representations of Prison’ in Mason, P. (Ed.) Ciminal Visions: media representation of crime and justice, Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp.278-297.

Mason, P. (2003) ‘Visions of Crime and Justice’ in Mason, P. (Ed.) Criminal Visions: media representation of crime and justice, Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 1-13.

Mason, P. (1995) ‘Prime Time Punishment: the British prison and television’ in Kidd-Hewitt, D. & Osborne, R. (Eds.) Crime and the Media: the post-modern spectacle, London: Pluto Press, pp.185-205.

Other Publications

Entries in J Bennett and Y. Jewkes (2007) Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment, London: Sage, in press.

Mason, P, Gross, B. and Mendes, K. (2007) Prison Media Monitoring Unit May Bulletin, School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Mason, P, Gross, B. and Mendes, K. (2007) Prison Media Monitoring Unit April Bulletin, School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Mason, P, Gross, B. and Mendes, K. (2006) Prison Media Monitoring Unit March Bulletin, School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Mason, P, Gross, B. and Mendes, K. (2006) Prison Media Monitoring Unit March Bulletin, School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Mason, P. (2005) Book Review: ‘Images of Incarceration: Representations of Prison in Film and Television by David Wilson and Sean O’Sullivan’, Crime, Media, Culture 1 (1), pp. 117-119.

Leishman, F. and Mason, P. (2005) ‘Decline and Fall in TV Copland’ (with Frank Leishman) Criminal Justice Matters, vol. 59, pp.22-3.

Mason, P. (2003) ‘The Evolution Will Be Mediatized’ in [jc2m] Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture, vol.1 (1), pp. 1-4

Mason, P (2001) ‘Courts, Cameras and Genocide: audio-visual coverage of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’ in Criminal Justice Matters, no. 43 Spring pp.36-38.

Mason, P. (2001) ‘Court On Camera’ in Picturing Justice Court On Camera

Mason, P. (2000) The Impact of Electronic Media Coverage of Court Proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY/Centre for Crime and the Media.

Mason, P. (2000) ‘Five Reasons To Televise the Lockerbie Trial’ in Head to Head: Cameras in Court on the BBC website

Hogan, D. and Mason, P. (1999) ‘Let the People See the Lockerbie Trial’ in The Times 9th February 1999, p.23

Mason, P. (1998) ‘Systems and Process’ in Image. Systems and Process

Mason, P. (1998) ‘Men, Machines and the Mincer: the Prison Movie’ in Picturing Justice.
Men, Machines and the Mincer

Interview for Brute Force, DVD reissue, Criterion Video, 2007.