How do different groups, interests and individuals go about soliciting and sustaining media interest in particular crime victims, or types of victims?

•    How do different groups, interests and individuals go about soliciting and sustaining media interest in particular crime victims, or types of victims?

•    What precisely are the conditions that need to be in place before victimized members of marginalized and powerless groups are deemed worthy of media attention and public sympathy?

•    What are the hierarchies of credibility and power in a multi-mediated society where images increasingly interweave with the worldwide practice of crime, violence, war and justice?

•    What precisely is the everyday impact of the selective representation of crime victims and criminal victimization on popular crime consciousness?

How do different groups, interests and individuals go about soliciting and sustaining media interest in particular crime victims, or types of victims?