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This book is both an introductory text and reference guide to the main issues facing journalists today, including social media, fake news, and regulators. The text covers the law of the United Kingdom – including Scots and Northern Irish devolved legislation – as well as human rights and EU laws.

This book covers essential areas such as: privacy, confidentiality, freedom of expression and media freedom, defamation, contempt of court, regulation of the print press and broadcast regulation as well as discussions on fake news and how to regulate online harm. There is a section on intellectual property law, covering mainly copyright. Court reporting and how to report on children, young people and victims of sexual offences receive particular attention in this book with relevant cases in user-friendly format. The engaging writing style is aimed to enthuse students, practitioners and lecturers with plenty of examination and practice materials. The text is packed with extensive learning aids including case studies, boxed notes, sample examination questions, appendices of statutes and cases and a glossary.

It is intended as a complete course textbook for students and teachers of journalism, media, communications and PR courses, focusing on diploma courses, NCTJ examinations and broadcast journalism courses such as the BJTC. The book’s international focus would also make it ideal reading for journalists from across the world who are working in the UK. The book presumes no prior legal knowledge.

This book is both an introductory text and reference guide to the main issues facing journalists today, including social media, fake news, and regulators. The text covers the law of the United Kingdom – including Scots and Northern Irish devolved legislation – as well as human rights and EU laws.

This book covers essential areas such as: privacy, confidentiality, freedom of expression and media freedom, defamation, contempt of court, regulation of the print press and broadcast regulation as well as discussions on fake news and how to regulate online harm. There is a section on intellectual property law, covering mainly copyright. Court reporting and how to report on children, young people and victims of sexual offences receive particular attention in this book with relevant cases in user-friendly format. The engaging writing style is aimed to enthuse students, practitioners and lecturers with plenty of examination and practice materials. The text is packed with extensive learning aids including case studies, boxed notes, sample examination questions, appendices of statutes and cases and a glossary.

It is intended as a complete course textbook for students and teachers of journalism, media, communications and PR courses, focusing on diploma courses, NCTJ examinations and broadcast journalism courses such as the BJTC. The book’s international focus would also make it ideal reading for journalists from across the world who are working in the UK. The book presumes no prior legal knowledge.

Now in its sixth edition, this leading Media and Entertainment Law textbook continues to combine comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law.

The sixth edition has been comprehensively updated, reflecting in particular the enormous changes brought about by artificial intelligence, and how it is influencing not only intellectual property law (e.g. music copyright), but also common law development in the UK, EU and USA. Topics covered include the regulation of online harms, and new legislation in the form of The Online Safety Act 2023 and The Media Act 2024. This edition also looks across European borders to US legislation in areas such as copyright, internet regulation, defamation and contempt. Case law features noteworthy examples such as ‘Vardy v Rooney – the Wagatha Christie Trial’ (2021), and other topics covered include tweeting jurors and contempt, and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex’s legal actions against the tabloid press on phone hacking and invasion of privacy.

With a variety of pedagogical features to encourage critical thinking, this unique textbook is essential reading for media and entertainment law courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and an insightful resource for students and reflective practitioners of journalism, public relations and media studies.

Now in its sixth edition, this leading Media and Entertainment Law textbook continues to combine comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law.

The sixth edition has been comprehensively updated, reflecting in particular the enormous changes brought about by artificial intelligence, and how it is influencing not only intellectual property law (e.g. music copyright), but also common law development in the UK, EU and USA. Topics covered include the regulation of online harms, and new legislation in the form of The Online Safety Act 2023 and The Media Act 2024. This edition also looks across European borders to US legislation in areas such as copyright, internet regulation, defamation and contempt. Case law features noteworthy examples such as ‘Vardy v Rooney – the Wagatha Christie Trial’ (2021), and other topics covered include tweeting jurors and contempt, and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex’s legal actions against the tabloid press on phone hacking and invasion of privacy.

With a variety of pedagogical features to encourage critical thinking, this unique textbook is essential reading for media and entertainment law courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and an insightful resource for students and reflective practitioners of journalism, public relations and media studies.

The Optimize series is designed to show you how to apply your knowledge in assessment. These concise revision guides cover the most commonly taught topics, and provide you with the tools to:

Understand the law and remember the details

Contextualise your knowledge

Avoid common misunderstandings and errors

Reflect critically on the law

Apply what you have learned in assessment

The series is also supported by comprehensive online resources that allow you to track your progress during the run-up to exams.

The Optimize series is designed to show you how to apply your knowledge in assessment. These concise revision guides cover the most commonly taught topics, and provide you with the tools to:

Understand the law and remember the details

Contextualise your knowledge

Avoid common misunderstandings and errors

Reflect critically on the law

Apply what you have learned in assessment

The series is also supported by comprehensive online resources that allow you to track your progress during the run-up to exams.

- Professor Allyson MacVean, John Grieve Centre for Policing & Community Safety, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

"Congratulations to Ursula Smartt and SAGE on a most welcome 'skills' text for Criminal Justice students... The book is concise, clear, well-organised and accessible - highly recommended." Stephen Parrott, Birkbeck, University of London

Criminal Justice by Ursula Smartt is part of an exciting new series from SAGE. It is designed to help students to make the most of their undergraduate or foundation course in Criminal Justice or Criminology. Developed as accessible reference tools, SAGE Course Companions offer an introduction to the subject and encourage students to extend their understanding of key concepts, issues and debates.

This book provides a basic grounding in criminal justice, alongside pointers to further reading and advice on study skills. It can be used as an overview of the subject and referred to throughout the degree for tips and revision guidance.

Smartt's Criminal Justice is designed to complement, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course, and will provide:

-Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid exam revision and essay planning

-Key summaries of the approach taken by the main textbooks on the course

-Guidance on the essential study skills required to pass the course

-Help with developing critical thinking

-Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond the textbook

-Pointers to success in course exams and written assessment exercises

-A tutor's-eye view of what course examiners are looking for

-An insider's view of what key course concepts are really all about

SAGE Course Companions are much more than revision guides for undergraduate. They are an essential tool to success in undergraduate courses, enriching the learning experience and developing students' understanding.

'This book is a triumph in its clarity, scholarship and sheer scope. It is increasingly vital that criminologists understand crime and the criminal justice system in depth, and Ursula Smartt unmasks the mysteries and lays bare the complexities of law like few other writers on the subject. This is the book on criminal law that should be on the shelf of everyone connected to the criminal law'

- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

'Law for Criminologists is a timely and concise introduction for those in criminology and law. Combining accessibility and scholarship, it will be welcomed by students and lecturers alike'

- Dr Azrini Wahidin, Reader and Programme Director for Criminology, Queen's University Belfast

'Highly informative, comprehensive and reader-friendly - this groundbreaking book is essential reading for all who are engaged in the study of criminology'

- Peter Joyce, Manchester Metropolitan University

This practical guide introduces students to the basic principles of the law, enabling a comprehensive understanding of criminology and criminal justice.

Law for Criminologists will enthuse the student and teacher about the law whilst giving sound advice on how to achieve a thorough comprehension of the topic. Striking a much-needed balance between essential law for criminologists, and commentary on current legal issues, this book provides the reader with a full understanding of:

" the workings of the law in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

" the European Union legal frameworks

" the law of evidence and the criminal process

" punishment and sentencing

" human rights issues

" the differences between youth justice and adult criminal legislation

" how to undertake independent legal research and further reading in the discipline.

Packed with extensive learning aids including case studies, boxed notes, sample examination questions, appendices of statutes and cases and a comprehensive glossary, this book is vital for all students in criminology and criminal justice. As well as an extensive foreword by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.

′This book is a triumph in its clarity, scholarship and sheer scope. It is increasingly vital that criminologists understand crime and the criminal justice system in depth, and Ursula Smartt unmasks the mysteries and lays bare the complexities of law like few other writers on the subject. This is the book on criminal law that should be on the shelf of everyone connected to the criminal law′

- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

′Law for Criminologists is a timely and concise introduction for those in criminology and law. Combining accessibility and scholarship, it will be welcomed by students and lecturers alike′

- Dr Azrini Wahidin, Reader and Programme Director for Criminology, Queen′s University Belfast

′Highly informative, comprehensive and reader-friendly - this groundbreaking book is essential reading for all who are engaged in the study of criminology′

- Peter Joyce, Manchester Metropolitan University

This practical guide introduces students to the basic principles of the law, enabling a comprehensive understanding of criminology and criminal justice.

Law for Criminologists will enthuse the student and teacher about the law whilst giving sound advice on how to achieve a thorough comprehension of the topic. Striking a much-needed balance between essential law for criminologists, and commentary on current legal issues, this book provides the reader with a full understanding of:

" the workings of the law in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

" the European Union legal frameworks

" the law of evidence and the criminal process

" punishment and sentencing

" human rights issues

" the differences between youth justice and adult criminal legislation

" how to undertake independent legal research and further reading in the discipline.

Packed with extensive learning aids including case studies, boxed notes, sample examination questions, appendices of statutes and cases and a comprehensive glossary, this book is vital for all students in criminology and criminal justice. As well as an extensive foreword by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.