Crime and the media

Question 1

What is non fiction coverage?

Answer 1

news reporting etc. Real life crime described through newspapers, magazines and Tv news reports etc.

Question 2

Who came up with the dramatic fallacy and the age fallacy?

Answer 2

Felson

Question 3

What is the dramatic fallacy?

Answer 3

the idea that the media overplay extraordinary crimes

Question 4

what is the age fallacy?

Answer 4

the idea that the media tends to focus on older victims

Question 5

What is the additivity hypothesis?

Answer 5

The more news values that a story covers, the more likely it is to be reported in the media

Question 6

who came up the additivity hypothesis?

Answer 6

Galtung & Ruge

Question 7

What are news values?

Answer 7

the criteria by which journalists decide whether a story is newsworthy enough to make it into a newspaper etc.

Question 8

What are the seven news values that journalists look at?

Answer 8

immediacy

dramatisation

personalisation

higher status people

novelty or unexpectedness

risk

violence

Question 9

Who came up with the ‘law of opposites’?

Answer 9

Surette (1998)

Question 10

What is the ‘law of opposites’?

Answer 10

The idea that fictional representations of crime and victims are the opposite to the official statistics but very similar to news coverage

Question 11

What is fictional representation of crime?

Answer 11

What we learn about crime through Tv, films, books etc.

Question 12

What are examples of new media (in relation to crime)?

Answer 12

revenge porn, identity theft etc.

Question 13

what is copycat crime?

Answer 13

when someone listens to music or plays video games etc. that prompts them to commit crime

Question 14

what is desensitisation?

Answer 14

when young people see violence as normal and a good problem solving device

Question 15

what is the disinhibition effect?

Answer 15

when young people think that normal discussion and negotiation can be replaced with violence

Question 16

what is the hypodermic syringe model?

Answer 16

the idea that we are strongly influenced by what we see in the media

Question 17

what is a moral panic?

Answer 17

and exaggerated or irrational over-reaction by society to a perceived problem

Question 18

what is a folk devil?

Answer 18

a person or group who is a threat t society’s values

Question 19

what is exaggeration and distortion?

Answer 19

media exaggerates the numbers involved in a crime and the extent of the violence

Question 20

who identified four categories of cyber crime?

Answer 20

Wall (2001)

Question 21

What are the four categories of cyber crime?

Answer 21

Cyber trespass

cyber deception and theft

cyber pornography

cyber violence

Question 22

what is cyber trespassing?

Answer 22

illegally crossing into someone else’s cyber space

Question 23

what is cyber deception and theft?

Answer 23

stealing someones identify through the internet, illegally downloading music and films

Question 24

what is cyber pornography?

Answer 24

illegal porn found online

Question 25

what is cyber violence?

Answer 25

threatening violence on the internet