Crime And Deviance - The Media And Crime Flashcards

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How is crime a consumer spectacle?

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Fictional & non-fictional crime stories staple of the media diet e.g. crimewatch

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SOCIOLOGISTS: How is crime used to sell products according to Hayward & Young?

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Corps/advertisers use media images of crime to sell products e.g. gangster rap

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SOCIOLOGISTS: How is crime used to sell products according to Fenwick & Young?

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crime is packaged & marketed to young people as a romantic, exciting & cool cultural symbol

the fashion industry trades on images of the forbidden e.g. brands like obsession + some designer labels function as symbols of deviance e.g. bluewater banned wearing hoodies despite selling them

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How does crime function as setting an agenda?

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many issues that are discussed about are on the subjects the media reports -> media personnel can be selective with what they choose to report & can influence public opinion on crime & deviance (biased)

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SOCIOLOGISTS: What do Greer & Reiner say about news values?

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news, documentaries etc. of sexual/violent crimes is what excites & captures popular imagination

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How is the news a social construct?

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it is reflected in the distorted image of crime created by the media + it doesnt simply exist & is the outcome of a social process where journalists select & reject potential stories

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SOCIOLOGISTS: What do Cohen & Young say about news, values & crime coverage?

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news is not discovered, but manufactured

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SOCIOLOGIST: What are news values, defined by Jewkes?

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values & assumptions about how exciting & interesting something is to the audience

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SOCIOLOGIST: Give 3 news values identified by Jewkes?

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spectacle/graphic images
celebrities/high status individuals
children

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Give an example of a news story that features a news value?

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Joe Biden’s son evading prison -> celebrities & high status people

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SOCIOLOGISTS: What did Williams & Dickinson find out about British newspapers?

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They devote 30% of space to crime

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SOCIOLOGIST: What does Surette say about the backwards law?

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the media construct images of crime & justice which are the opposite version of reality

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SOCIOLOGISTS: What evidence to Greer & Reiner point out in suggestion of the backwards law?

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there is an overrepresentation/exaggeration of sex, drugs & violent crime
there is an underrepresentation of property crime
media exaggerate the risk of becoming a victim (elderly, women, white etc.) & police success in clearing up cases (want to present themselves in a good light due to the overrepresentation of violent crime)

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EVALUATION: What are some limitations of the backwards law?

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theres a new trend towards ‘reality infotainment’ that feature young, non white offenders + increasing tendency to show less sucessful & corrupt police & victims have become more central (taking law into their own hands -> audience can identify with their suffering)

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How does the media create the idea of a hyperreality of crime?

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the media socially construct a distorted view of crime with an increased risk of becoming a victim (links to Baudrillard (postmodernist)) as well as act as moral entrepreneurs & guardians of national morality by labelling & stereotyping certain groups & activities as deviant/social problems

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How can the media be a cause of crime?

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the negative effect of fictional & non-fictional media on the attitudes/values/behaviour on susceptible groups e.g. young/w.class can lead them to turn to crime

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AO2: What was Bandura’s research & what did he find?

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he was researching whether viewing violence leads to violent behaviour -> found the children who watched the aggressive videos displayed aggressive behaviour

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EVALUATION: What is a criticism of Greer & Reiner’s viewpoint?

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much of the ‘media effects’ research ignores the meaning people give to media violence -> echoes the interactionist view (to understand the media, we have to understand the meanings people give to what they see & read

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What is the argument proposed by cultural criminology?

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the media turn crime into a commodity that people desire -> people are encouraged to consume crime in the form of images

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SOCIOLOGISTS: What do Haywards & Young’s viewpoint on cultural criminology?

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late modernity is media-saturated