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				First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025
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			Authors: Nicolas Hubé and Claire Ruffio
			
 Title: Tabloidization of News Rather Than Punitive Turn
 
 Subtitle: Crime and Penal Issues on French and German Newspaper Front Pages (1971–2017)
 
 In: Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in France and Germany: A Strained Restraint
 
 Edited by: Kirstin Drenkhahn, Fabien Jobard and Tobias Singelnstein
 
 Place: London and New York, NY
 
 Publisher: Routledge
 
 Year: 2023
 
 Pages: 203-224
 
 Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
 
 ISBN-13: 9781032188676 (hbk.) - 
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			ISBN-13: 9781032188683 (pbk.) - 
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			ISBN-13: 9781003256694 (ebk.) - 
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 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Modern History: 
					21st Century | 
				European History: 
					French History, 
					German History | 
				Types: 
					Sexual Assault; 
				Representations: 
					Press / 
						Le Figaro, 
						Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 
						Le Monde, 
						Süddeutsche Zeitung
 
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			Authors:
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				Nicolas Hubé, 
					Centre de recherche sur les médiations (Mediation Research Centre), 
					Université de Lorraine (University of Lorraine) - 
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				Claire Ruffio, 
					Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, 
					Centre national de la recherche scientifique - 
					Academia.edu, 
					ORCID
 
 Abstract: 
				»Chapter 7.2 analyses trends in the front-page headlines of a sample of print media in both countries and concludes that there is a gradual, but ambiguous, tabloidization of the press on both sides of the Rhine.« 
				(Source: Drenkhahn, Kirstin, Fabien Jobard, Johanna Nickels and Tobias Singelnstein. »Testing the Continental Restraint Hypothesis in France and Germany.« Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in France and Germany: A Strained Restraint. Edited by Kirstin Drenkhahn et al. London 2023: 17)
 
 Contents:
 
			
			
			|  | The Moderate Punitive Turn in Newspaper Headlines (p. 204) |  
			|  |  | A Very Limited News Coverage Until 2002 in National Broadsheet Papers (1971–2017) (p. 204) |  
			|  |  | The Structural Differences between the French and German Media Systems (2007–2017) (p. 207) |  
			|  | What Kind of Crime is Newsworthy? (p. 208) |  
			|  |  | Public Order Matters (1971–2017) (p. 208) |  
			|  |  | Sexual Offences vs Property Crime, Some Variations in Crime News Selection (2007–2017) (p. 211) |  
			|  | From Meaningless Events to Social Issues: The (Relative) Politicization of Crime News (p. 213) |  
			|  | Crime as Events Managed by Traditional Stakeholders (p. 216) |  
			|  |  | Framing the News: Special Events, but Rarely Public Issues (p. 217) |  
			|  |  | Institutional Actors as Primary Definers of Crime News (p. 219) |  
			|  | Conclusion (p. 222) |  
			|  | Notes (p. 222) |  
			|  | Bibliography (p. 223) |  Wikipedia: 
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						Süddeutsche Zeitung | 
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