Looks at the study of crime and deviance through written, spoken and visual representation. This book deals specifically with the role of language in representations and constructions of crime, deviance and punishment in the media. It provides a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples across a range of media. With great cogency and insight Andrea Mayr and David Machin offer new ways of seeing what they term "mediatized language of crime". They provide an invaluable analytical tool-kit for such analysis, which is put to work on stimulating examples. From "chavs" to "drug addicts" and the crimes of the powerful, the authors explain the social practice of media discourse: what language does as well as what it says. Skilfully narrated, and assiduously assembled, The Language of Crime and Deviance is an important intervention into the studies of language, and cultural constructions of crime.