Crime and Deviance - Mass media

Question 1

Ditton and Duffy - reported crimes

Answer 1

46% media reports about violent and sexual crimes
3% of reported crimes by police

Question 2

Felson - Fallacies

Answer 2

reporting reinforces falsehoods:
- age (all age groups are involved in crime)
- class (MC more likely to be victims, but WC are)
- ingenuity (criminals are clever, but most opportunistic and in spur of moment)
- police (more efficient)
- dramatic (focus on most violent crimes, instils fear)

Question 3

David Morrison - effects of violence on audience

Answer 3

the context of violence affects the impacts on the audience

Question 4

Angela McRobbie - outdated moral panic theory

Answer 4

now 24- hour rolling news wit sophisticated media technology, stories are not reported for long enough to become moral panics

Question 5

Surrette - law of opposites

Answer 5

fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are often opposites of the official statistics and are strikingly similar to news coverage