crime and the media - topic 7 Flashcards
media rep of cr
cr/devi large proportion of news coverage
williams/dickinson; fou british newspapers devote up to 30% of news space to cr
give distorted view of cr
1 over rep viol/sexual cr ie. fou 46% media reports abo viol/sexual cr b only made up of 3% cr recorded by poli
2 media portray crim/vict as older/+re m/c ‘age fallacy’
3 media coverage exagg poli success
4 exagg risk of victimisation
5 cr report as series sep events
6 media overplay extraordinary cr/underplay ordinary cr
new values and cr coverage - media rep of cr
news is social construction, social process wh some stories select/reject
stan/cohen; news manufactured for news value; journalists deciding wheth story newsworthy
1 immediacy
2 dramatisation
3 personalisation
4 higher - status/celebs
5 simplification
6 unexpectedness 7 risk 8 violence
fictional representations of cr - media rep of cr
surette; fict rep cr opp to OS ‘law of opp’ and simi to news
1 prop cr underrep/viol drug cr overrep
2 fict homicide product of greed calculation
3 fict sex cr commit by psychopath x acquaintance
4 fict cops get crim
5 fict villains higher stat mid aged white males
how new genre of reality infotainment shows feat you non white underclass offend, shows increasingly showing poli as corrupt and vict beco +re cent
media as cause of cr - media rep of cr
imitation
arousal
desensitisation
knowledge of crim tech
stimulating desires for unaffordable goods
portraying poli as incompetent
glamourising offending
fear of crime - media rep of cr
exagg amount of cr/vict causing fear
tumber; fou correlation b/w media consumption/cr
heavy to users express greater fear of cr /being vict esp mugging
how. x mean correl as may be watching +re to cuz they’re at home +re fr already having a fear of cr
greer/reiner; must look at meanings peop give to media viol as may give diff views to cartoons/horror films
media, relative deprivation and crime - media rep of cr
LR; arg media incre sense rel depriv
even poorest grp have access to media
media presents everyone as having ‘good life’ of leisure/consumer goods as norm 2 conform
stimulates rel depriv and social exclusion in marginalised grp/cx afford
merton; press to conform cause dev beh when legit opport to achieve blocked so media instrumental in setting norm/promote cr
cultural criminology, media and crime - media rep of cr
media encourages peop to consume cr in form of images of cr
hayward/young; see late mod soc as media saturated, blurring b/w image/reality of cr so not sep
way media rep cr/cr contr now part of creating cr itself
media and the commodification of crime - media rep of cr
cr/thrillers beco commodified
corporations/advertisers use media images of cr to sell products esp in you market
ex. gangster rap/hip hop combo images of st hustler criminality w images of consumerist success
cr/devi beco style to consume
also mainstream products ex. car ads ft riots/joyriding
mods and rockers - moral panics
media over exagg the fights b/w mods/rockers
cohen; 3 elements the media does
1 exagg/distortion ex. nu involv/extent of violence
2 prediction; ex further conflict/viol
3 symbolisation; all their symbols -vely labelled/assoc w deviance
the wider context - moral panics
functionalists; role of moral panic is to respond to anomie created by change
by exagg situ means rest soc can see what is bad
neo marxists hall et al; moral panics benefit capitalism bec serves as distraction and divides w/c wh legitimises authority of ruling class
criticisms of moral panics - moral panics
assumes societal reaction is disproportionate
late modernity audiences may x react to media exagg w panic
sociologists x able to explain why media r able to amplify some problems into panic
x explain why moral panic doesn’t go on even if cr is still going on
cyber crime - moral panics
new forms of media oft lead to moral panics
internet creates opport for cr/new cr creat ‘new cr using new tools’
ex. cyber trespass, cyber detection/theft, cyber pornography, cyber viol
policing cyber cr difficult bec of large scale of internet (global cyber crime)
new info/communication technology prov poli/state greater opport for surveillance thru cctv/digital fingerprinting etc
