C+D MEDIA 7

Question 1

OVER REPRESENTAITON OF VIOLENT/SEUXL CRIMES-FUNCTIONALIST
Dutton and duffy

Answer 1

46% of media reports were on these crimes which make up only 3% of crimes recorded by police.

Question 2

OVER REPRESENTAITON OF VIOLENT/SEUXL CRIMES-FUNCTIONALIST
Dutton and duffy
a02

Answer 2

the metro movement covers many cases of sexual assault over long period of time, over which many other types of crime happened mroe frequent didn’t make the news

Question 3

OVER REPRESENTAITON OF VIOLENT/SEUXL CRIMES-FUNCTIONALIST
Dutton and duffy
aa03

Answer 3

sexual and violent crime could be considered some of the worst crimes to be victims of

Question 4

over representation of criminals and victims as older and middle class> marxism
feison

Answer 4

form official staistics> most crime committed by wc groups 15-20
feign calls this ‘age fallacy’> individuals mc/older have the correct facilities to commit crimes successfully.

Question 5

over representation of criminals and victims as older and middle class> marxism
feison
a02:

Answer 5

bbc news presenter had indecent images of children for a long time

Question 6

exegeration of police success- interactionist

Answer 6

police are the major source for crime stories, they want themselves to be presented in a positive light

Question 7

exegeration of police success- interactionist
a02

Answer 7

media overrepresent violent crime> whisk is more likely to be saved than property crime which hardly makes the news

Question 8

exegeration of police success- interactionist
a03

Answer 8

police is seen to make mistakes eg mark Duggan shot dead, innocnet> present in bad light

Question 9

exaggeration of the risk of becoming a victim

Answer 9

women, white people in high status are shown to be at most risk when actually young bae males are at risk of major crimes

Question 10

exaggeration of the risk of becoming a victim
a02

Answer 10

me too movement , high status white women were centre of media coverage

Question 11

exaggeration of the risk of becoming a victim
a03

Answer 11

is it the readers fault for making the connection between reporting of crime and becoming a victim, rather than medias

Question 12

media cause for crime: materialism

Answer 12

the media presents images of everyone with perfect life, this leads to the experience of material deprivation and leads to them committing crime

Question 13

media cause for crime: materialism
a03

Answer 13

white collar crime, not all materially deprived commit crime

Question 14

media cause for crime: desentilisaiton

Answer 14

media exposes people to violent crimes regularly, some are this exposure makes people less sensitive to these crimes and more lily to commit them

Question 15

media cause for crime: desentilisaiton
a03

Answer 15

this violence may encourage people not to do it

Question 16

media cause for crime: desentilisaiton
a02

Answer 16

gamed cod/gta
shows/skins/prison break/gypsy rose

Question 17

media cause for crime: imitation

Answer 17

sometimes viewers of media will attempt to imitate crimes they see , they are referred to as copy cat crimes

Question 18

media cause for crime: imitation
a02

Answer 18

Derek brown found guilty of killing young women, following from jack the ripper

Question 19

media cause for crime: arousal

Answer 19

violent and sexual imagery in the media may stimulate potential criminals and may become a factor in them turning to crime eg 50 shades of grey rape

Question 20

media cause for crime: knowledge

Answer 20

people learn criminal teqniques through media, whether its suing media to communicate or search watching tv shows films and learning eg gypsy rose boys using google to kill her mum