This article is a response that reviews the findings presented in Judith Buckingham's article “Newsmaking Criminology”. Critiquing the research into gender symmetry in domestic violence, gender bias in the criminal justice system, and the ways in which the popular press in Australia and New Zealand have chosen to promote widely accepted views of domestic violence in the criminal justice processes.
The article further examines the role criminologists play in participating as experts in media constructions of crime and social control. Supporting criminologist involvement as the media has a significant role in mobilising public opinion about crime, that motivates many criminologists to participate as experts in media constructions of crime and
