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The degree to which criminological scholarship on the mediacrime relationship has been subject to the tides of moral panics is not well-understood, although there are theoretical reasons to hypothesize about the role of scientists in moral panics. Textbooks are one location in which a discipline chronicles its scholarly history and speaks to the public, making texts an important site for understanding how scholars interpret the media-crime relationship. A content analysis of over 200 criminology texts, ranging in publication dates from 1880 to 2012, was conducted. Almost half the texts covered the media-crime relationship. These texts often appeared to be responding to and concurring with public debates brought on by moral panics. Textbooks most frequently took a negative stance on the media-crime relationship, as opposed to a more neutral stance or balanced approach. Proportionally, the media-crime relationship received the most coverage in the 1950s, 1990s, and 2000s, decades that correspond to surges of public debates about comics and video games. The decision of many authors to take a negative position in texts, while others cited contrary evidence, may reflect scholarly authors’ participation, intentionally or not, in the panic process. “Burlesque, insensate, spiritless and undiscriminating, demoralizes both the audience and the players. It debases the public taste.” (Heyward, 1885, p. 477) *Corresponding Author Lisa A. Kort-Butler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Sociology, 718 Oldfather Hall, P.O. Box 880324, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 68588-0324 USA email: lkortbutler2@unl.edu A previous version of this paper was presented to the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE, 2014 2 kOrT-BuTler & kIllINgSwOrTh “If there is ever something to get fired up about, or if you ever wondered why we’re raising a morally tone-dead generation of citizens, take a look at the recently released video game Grand Theft Auto 5.” (Ingram, 2013)

From Burlesque to Grand Theft Auto: A Historical Analysis of the Treatment of the Media-Crime Relationship in Criminology Texts