You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series. By Ben Lamb. (Manchester University Press, 2019, 232pp. £80.00 hb)

Abstract

Ben Lamb is a cultural theorist at Teesside University who specializes in television studies. His research interests are social exclusion, representation in popular culture and public policy, all of which have a significant overlap with criminology (particularly cultural criminology) and all of which are reflected in You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series. The purpose of the monograph is to provide an analysis of the representation of the dichotomy between public space and private space in the British popular cultural artefact of the television police series. Lamb draws attention to the fact that this is the first television studies work to include all six decades of the television police series and the exhaustive scope of the monograph is just one of several outstanding features. The study is divided into six chapters, with each except for the first (which combines the 1950s and 1960s) dedicated to a decade, bookended by...