Area X: Perceptions and Responses to Crime and Justice / 63: Media and the Social Construction of Crime

Making Claims About the Immigration-Crime Nexus in Major U.S. Newspapers - Mariah Barber, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jeff Gruenewald, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Casey Taggart Harris, University of Arkansas

Representations of Correctional Reform: An Analysis of Prisons in the News - Dawn K. Cecil, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Investigating Discursive Shifts in the Social Construction of Private Prisons - Brian Wolf, University of Idaho; Joseph De Angelis, University of Idaho; Kristine Levan, University of Idaho; Claire Whitley, University of Idaho

Unmasking Privatization: Discursive Strategies and the Construction of CCA’s Public Image - Bethany Callan Nelson, University of Tennessee

Kristen Maziarka, University of California, Irvine