crime&deviance- media Flashcards
How is crime represented in the media?
It over exaggerates violent and sexual crime. It portrays criminals and victims as middle class when its more working class. It overplays extra-ordinary crime and underplays ordinary crime.
What are news values?
Criteria by which journalists and editors decide whether a story is newsworthy. It is decided on the scale, drama, human interest, violence etc.
How does the media cause of crime?
Imitation, transfer of criminal knowledge, desensitisation.
Why do people who watch more TV have a greater fear of crime?
Because the media portrays the risk of victimisation as a lot higher than it actually is.
What does relative deprivation mean?
Feeling deprived in relation to others.
What is a moral panic?
When the media exaggerates an act of deviance that has occurred, and it causes the public to have anxiety and panic.
What happened to the Mods and Rockers?
2 groups of working-class teenagers has a scuffle and the media exaggerated it, creating a moral panic and predicting further deviance, causing them to have further scuffles.
Why is moral panic theory not useful?
It doesn’t explain why moral panics fade away.
What are the four types of cyber-crime?
Cyber trespass, cyber deception and fraud, cyber pornography, cyber violence.
Why is cyber-crime difficult to police?
Because the police don’t have the knowledge or the resources to prosecute cybercrime. Cyber crime is also not the police’s focus as it does not fit in with their typification’s.
