Ethnomethodology, of which MCA is a branch, has traditionally been inter- ested in crime and deviance. It can be seen, as Sven-A ̊ke Lindgren (2005) has stated, as one lineage of social construc- tionist criminology. He writes that the focus has been ‘on detailed empirical studies of local praxis, and in par- ticular the deconstruction of ‘‘invi- sible’’ rules and routine activities’. Ethnomethodological studies have been conducted, for instance, on court pro- ceedings (Sudnow 1965), on prisons and the convict code (Wieder 1974), on police interrogations (Watson 1983), on the media’s presentations of crime (Lee 1984). In my study the local practice is the construction of crime news as routine activity of the newspapers. Invisible rules that I am interested in relate to how these acts are made sense of. How are the categorization and social and moral orders relating to it used in newspapers when intelligible descriptions of violence are created?