Crime Wave? What Crime Wave!

Jahabar Sadiq | Tony Emmanuel

16-Aug-13 00:32

Perception, conspiracy theories, factoids and frameworks: the cauldron in which the issue of crime in Malaysia is caught. Is the perception of a “crime wave” a function of mainstream media coverage? Or is the recent spate of violent crime, as some allege, being manufactured by the government of the day? Jahabar Sadiq, CEO and Editor at The Malaysian Insider, and Tony Emmanuel, Crime Editor at The New Straits Times, both veteran crime journalists, frame the issues for us.

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