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Naming, shaming and criminal justice: Mass-mediated humiliation as entertainment and punishment

Steven A. Kohm

University of Winnipeg, Canada, s.kohm{at}uwinnipeg.ca

Shame has long been a dubious tool of criminal justice and has been carried on by state authorities in a variety of ways through the ages. However, since the latter part of the 20th century, humiliation has become amplified through the mass media in the name of crime control and entertainment. This article situates mass-mediated humiliation within broader trends in criminal justice and popular culture. While the enactment of humiliation via popular culture works powerfully within prevailing cultural beliefs about crime and criminality, there also exists a subversive possibility that threatens to disrupt the forces that attempt to invoke shame for purposes of profit or social control. The popular American tabloid news magazine, Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator, is used as an example to highlight the ambiguous cultural place of shame.

Key Words: humiliation • internet • media • predators • vigilantism

Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2, 188-205 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1741659009335724
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