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1
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How does the mass media distort image of crime

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Ditton & Duffy
Over represents: violent and sex
Under represents: property

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How much of the Sun Newspaper is taken up by crime news stories

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30%

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3
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How much of media reports are made up of violence or sexual crimes

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46%

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How much of actual crime does violence and sexual crime make up

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3%

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What do Southill and Walby find about rape reporting

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Increasing

Despite drop rape cases

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How many more times likely does Marsh find you are likely to report violent crime than property crime

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36x

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7
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Who does the media exaggerate risk victimisation on

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Young women

Elderly

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8
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What does exaggerating crime cause

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Increased fear in crime

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9
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What does Greer state about the exaggeration of crime

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Media seeks out newsworthy stories 
Exploiting possibilities 
Dramatises, exaggerates, over reports and sensationalises 
Out of proportion 
Generate audiences
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10
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Give an example of Greers belief that media exaggerates

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Crimewatch gives reconstructions giving quite frightening dramatised insights

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11
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How much of TV and films are estimated to be about crime and criminals

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25% of prime time TV

20% of films

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12
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Between the years 1945-84 how many crime thrillers were sold world wide

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Mandel – 10 billion

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What do Gerbner and Schlesinger and Tumber argue about media consumption

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Correlation between media consumption and fear of crime

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14
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Evaluation of correlation

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Does not mean cause

Could be another disposition

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15
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What happens when more individuals stay in

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Stay in watch tv 
Fear crime
Stay in more
Less capable guardians on street
NEW RIGHT: more crime
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16
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Which theory says less capable guardians on the street more crime?

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New right

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17
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What is Sparks evaluation

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Careful assuming audience all respond same way

Active vs passive audiences

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18
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Who argues about active vs passive audiences

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Sparks

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19
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What do feminists think of the media

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Controls women

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20
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Evaluation of media exaggerating victimisation

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  • feminists: controls women

- sparks: active vs passive audiences

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21
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What are the concepts in news vales and social construction the news

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News values
Factors consider
Cohen and Young: news is manufactured

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22
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What are news values

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Values and assumptions held by editors and journalists guide them choosing what is newsworthy and what is reported

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23
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What factors do journalists consider when choosing news values

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  • Proximity - cultural meaning, geographical closeness - british crime better foreign crime
  • Risk - larger better, able misrepresent serious, random, unpredictable believe we are all at risk
  • High status/Celebrities
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24
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Why Cohen and Young argue news is manufactured

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Make decisions what to report using news values like
Dramatic
Unusual

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25
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How does the media cause crime

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  • copy cat crime
  • creation of desires
  • cyber crime
  • exaggeration and distortion news
26
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What sort of society is created through creation of desires

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Bulimic

27
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How do New Left Realists argue creation desires cause crime

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Increase sense relative deprivation

28
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What theorist is Bauman

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Late modernist

29
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What dis Bauman say about 2011 riots in relation to creation of desires

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Disenfranchised consumers

30
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What theorist is Croall

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Post modernist

31
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What does post modernist Croall say about creation of desires causing an increase in crime

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Girls driven by conspicuous consumption designer goods to steal

32
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How do Fenwick and Hayword argue crime is packing in creation desires

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‘Cool’

Associated fashionable cultural symbols (brands)

33
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How does merton agree with creation of desires

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People innovate achieve materialistic goods

Especially when legitimate means blocked

34
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How does Sewells Triple Quandary Theory support creation of desires

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3 risk factors high crime Afro-Caribbean boys
2nd= conspicuous consumption
Identity and status dependent material items
Seen through MTV and rap culture

35
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How do Traditional Marxists support creation of desires

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Media part ISA creating demand consumer goods necessary capitalist economy

36
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What does Marxist Gordon say about creation of desires

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Ideology capitalism encourages ‘culture of envy’ media part superstructure reinforces this

37
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Evaluation creation of desires

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  • lot crime not motivated by material e.g. Vandalism

- patriarchal control keep women in the home

38
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Which New Right theorist suggested more people at home less capable guardians on the street

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Felson

39
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How does exaggeration and distortion news lead increase in crime

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Moral panics cause deviancy amplification

40
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Who studied in to moral panics

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Stan Cohen

41
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Moral panics and ______ ________?

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Folk devils

42
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Outline moral panics

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  • issues public concern
  • report exaggerated
  • demonise individuals ‘folk devils’
  • symbolisation: hair, clothes, music
  • association group becomes visable to public
  • media invites moral entrepreneurs condemn behaviour
  • predicts further trouble
  • pressure authority control issue
  • increased policing severe punishment
  • self fulfilling prophecy
  • deviancy amplification
43
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How does Hall support S.Cohen and moral panics

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Moral panic mugging 
Increase reporting and recording black crime
Scapegoated black individuals 
Labelled 'folk devil' 
Reality mugging hadnt gone up
44
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What does Halls moral panics differ to Stan Cohens

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Hall believes it is a crisis in hegemony

Divert from real issue - capitalism

45
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What is Halls theory called

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Myth of black criminality

46
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Evaluation moral panics

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  • McRobbie and Thorton: less useful audiences not homogenous do not all agree what is deviant
  • Durkheim: positive impact reinforce collective conscience
47
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How does the media lead to crime through ‘copy cat’

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Media powerful socialisation agent shape behaviour young people
Expose crime and desensitise

48
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Real life example copy cat crime

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Jamie Bulger influenced video games such as Child Play 3

49
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How does Banduras Bobo Doll study support copy cat crime

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Children imitated what they saw doing to Bobo Doll

50
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Criticisms Banduras experiment

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  • Hawthorne effect
  • No one has yet managed replicate
  • lack validity = lab
51
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What are the long term effects imitation

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Desensitisation

Deinhibition = more tolerant of violence

52
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How does long term imitation affects cause cultural effects model

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Media coverage help create climate support law and order with high levels surveillance
Punishment acceptable

53
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Evaluation copy cat model

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Cumberbatch: reviewed 3500 studies found no link
Morrison: depends meaning and context
Sparks: active vs passive

54
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Who found a link between watching violence and violent behaviour

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Wartella

55
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What has the increase in crime being according to the Home Office 2015

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Crime doubled

  1. 1mill incidences online fraud
  2. 5mill other cyber crimes
56
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How much does Detica argue cyber crime costs UK per year

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£27billion

57
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What 4 types of cyber crime foes Jewkes identify

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Cyber trespassing
Cyber deception
Cyber porn/paedophilia
Cyber violence

58
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Give an example of Jewkes 4 types of cyber crime

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Trespassing - hacking/viruses
Deception - fraud e.g. Tesco 2016 20,000 customer details taken
Porn -
Violence - stalking/inciting e.g. 9/11 terrorists used public access computers communicate and buy tickets

59
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How long did the world wide web take to reach 50 million users

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3 years

60
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How many users of the world wide web was there in 2010

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1.59billion

61
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What are the 4 main groups the government found responsible cyber crime

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  • organised crime networks e.g. Glocal
  • foreign intelligence and individual espionage
  • terrorists
  • hacker groups - anonymous Hacktivism
62
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How had the internet brought more control

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Better opportunities surveillance
CCTV, electronic databases, digital finger printing
Lead increase crime as can capture more

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