crime & deviance- media

Question 1

Schlesinger & Turner

Answer 1

crime rate shifted in 90s to less serious and made it so that crime had to be special to attract media attention

Question 2

Soothill & Walby

Answer 2

‘sex beasts’

Question 3

Young & Cohen

Answer 3

news is social construct, not just out there waiting to be found

Question 4

Cohen

Answer 4

mods and rockers, 3 elements of moral panic, deviancy amplification spiral

Question 5

Cohen

Answer 5

wider context of moral panics as struggle to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour after war brought social disorder after 40s

Question 6

McRobbie & Thornton

Answer 6

harder to create moral panics in late modernity as what was once deviant is now not

Question 7

Ericson et al

Answer 7

study of toronto where 45-71% radio about deviance and control

Question 8

Williams & Dickinson

Answer 8

30% british newspapers devoted to crime but this not match official stats

Question 9

Dutton & Duffy

Answer 9

46% media reports about violent/sexual crimes but make up only 3% all reported crimes

Question 10

Felson

Answer 10

age fallacy, dramatic fallacy, ingenuity fallacy

Question 11

Gerbner

Answer 11

people who watched 4 hours of tv a day had greater fear of becoming a victim

Question 12

Schlesinger & Tumber

Answer 12

tabloid and tv users greater fear of being victim of mugging/assault

Question 13

Greer & Reiner

Answer 13

ignores individual meanings of crime in media

Question 14

Schramm

Answer 14

effects of media on kids is harmful for some and not harmful for others

Question 15

Livingstone

Answer 15

we too rigid about kids and media because see childhood as time of innocence

Question 16

Hayward & Young

Answer 16

crime is a commodity that people desire

Question 17

Fenwick & Hayward

Answer 17

crime packaged as ‘romantic’ ‘exciting’ ‘cool’ ‘fashionable’

Question 18

Surette

Answer 18

‘law of opposites’ in fictional representation of crime which are similar to official stats