Crime and media

Question 1

How does the media give us a distorted image of crime ?

Answer 1

Misrepresents violent and sexual crimes

Criminals are portrayed as older people

Exaggeration of police success

Dramatic fallacy

Ingenuity fallacy

Question 2

What did Greer and Reiner (2012) say about media representation of crime ?

Answer 2

They found an increase in coverage over recent decades and a tendency for tabloid newspapers to devote a higher proportion of their space to crimes than more serious newspapers do

Question 3

What do Galtung and Ruge (1965) argue ?

Answer 3

News values are the criteria by which journalists and editor decide whether a story is newsworthy

Question 4

What are the news values Galtung and Ruge (1965) argue ?

Answer 4

Immediacy
Dramatisation
Personalisation
Higher status
Simplification
Novelty
Risk
Violence

Question 5

What do Keeitra & Mahoney say ?

Answer 5

Media coverage of crime is increasing a mixture of entertainment and sensationalism​

Question 6

What are the ways in which you could argue the media causes crime ?

Answer 6

Imitation
Arousal
Desensitisation
Transmitting knowledge of criminal technique
Creating a desire for material goods
Glamorising offending
Portraying the police as incompetent

Question 7

What did Schlesinger & Tumber (1992) find ?

Answer 7

A correlation between media consumption and fear of crime, with tabloid readers and heavy users of TV expressing greater fear of becoming a victim

Question 8

What do left realists lea and young say ?

Answer 8

That media increases the sense of relative deprivation, causing people to feel the need to commit crime

Question 9

What do Fenwick & Hayward (2000) argue ?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What does Cohen (1972) Say about moral panics ?

Answer 10

When the media exaggerates something, People begin to worry which makes the reported problem a bigger issue

Question 11

What is Cohens deviance amplification spiral ?

Answer 11

Problems reframed>Problem simplified>Stigmatised>Media call for action>Authorities respond (repeated)

Question 12

What do McRobbie & Thornton (1995) argue about moral panics ?

Answer 12

Moral panics are now routine and have less impact ​

Question 13

What are the 4 types of cyber crime Wall (2001) categorises ?

Answer 13

Cyber trespass

Cyber-deception & theft ​

Cyber-pornography

Cyber-violence ​

Question 14

In what ways has technologies and advancements helped tackle crime ?

Answer 14

Greater communication between authorities​

Greater surveillance

Increased awareness​

Digital finger-printing