This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment).

A transnational study of law and justice on TV /Peter Robson and Jennifer L. Schulz -- Australia / Cassandra Sharp -- Belgium (Flanders) / Hilden Van den Bulck, Kathleen Custers and Jan Van den Bulck -- Britain / Peter Robson -- Canada / Jennifer L. Schulz -- Denmark / Glen Odgaard -- France / Barbara Villez (with Valentin Rolando) -- Germany / Stefan Machura and Michael Böhnke -- Greece / Nickos Myrtou, Stamatis Poulakidakos and Panagiota Nakou -- Israel / Itay Ravid -- Italy / Ferdinando Spina -- Poland / Zofia Zawadzka -- Spain / Anja Louis -- Switzerland / Lukas Musumeci and Fabian Odermatt -- United States of America / Christine A. Corcos.