Mass Media And Crime

Question 1

All key names of mass media and crime

Answer 1

Dutton and Duffy, surrette, jock young, bandura, Stan cohen, hall, Greer, Greer and reiner

Question 2

The media over represent violent an
sexual crime

Answer 2

Ditton and Duffy (1983) found that 46% of media report were about sexual and violent crimes yet these made up only 3% of recorded crime. Marsh (1991) also found that violent crime was 36 times more likely to be reported in the news than property crime.

Question 3

The media portrays criminals and
victims as white, older and middle
class

Answer 3

Most victims are young and often living in deprived communities. Victimisation occurs more in EMG. Felson (1998) called this age fallacy.

Question 4

Media coverage exaggerates police
SUCCeSS

Answer 4

This is because the focus of the media is on violent crime which has a higher clear up rate than property crime plus the police are high on the hierarchy of credibility.

Question 5

The media exaggerates the risk of
victimisation.

Answer 5

Especially to women, white people and the upper classes.

Question 6

Crime is reported as a series of
separate events

Answer 6

Without examining the structural causes of crime e.g. social inequality and poverty.

Question 7

The media overplay extraordinary
crimes

Answer 7

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Felson calls this “dramatic fallacy” when the media focus on the weird and wonderful and also imply that criminals are all intelligent and calculated.

Question 8

Evolution of crime coverage

Answer 8

There is some evidence of changes in the type of coverage of crime by the news media. Schlesinger and Tumber (1994) found that in the 1960s the focus had been found that in the 1960s the focUS Was on murders and petty crime then in the 1990s widened to include drUgs, child
abuse, terrorism, football hooliganism and muggings. There is also a preoccupation with sex crimes, focussing on labels SUch as sex fiends and beasts resulting in a distorted idea that you will be raped by a stranger; when in fact you are more likely to be raped by someone yoU know.

Question 9

Jock young

Answer 9

News is not discovered it is manufactured

Question 10

How could news be constructed

Answer 10

Milliband

Question 11

Greer and reiner

Answer 11

greer and Reiner (2012) point out that in news, documentaries and fiction, stories of sexUal and
Violent crimes are the incidents that titillate, excite and capture the popular imagination. The
media are always seeking out news worthy stories of crime and deviance, and they exploit the possibilities of a good story by sensationalising events out of all proportion for the audience.

Question 12

Greer

Answer 12

Greer (2005) sUggests that these news values explain why all media, both fact and fiction, tend to exaggerate the extent of violent crime and why practically any form of deviance from celebrities no matter how trivial, receives massive cOverage.

Question 13

Surrlette

Answer 13

Law of opposites, fictional crime is opposed to government statistics

Question 14

Crime as consumer soectacke

Answer 14

Pulp fiction

Question 15

Hayward and young

Answer 15

Makes crime seem hip and cool

Question 16

Bandura

Answer 16

Smacking Bobo shit

Question 17

Moral panics cycle

Answer 17

Deviant act, operation if news values, crime seen as news, deviancy amplification, moral panics,

Question 18

Stan Cohen’s study

Answer 18

Mods n rockers

Question 19

Moral panics occur at time of social change

Answer 19

E.g. llooters at George Floyd rallies

Question 20

Stuart hall

Answer 20

Neo Marxist, says moral panics benefit capitalism, black muggings divert from public talking of exploitation

Link to media and neomarxist views

Question 21

Left and right realist views on moral panics

Answer 21

Left: have grounds for general concern

Right: exaggerates and perpetuates moral panics in media

Question 22

Jewkes

Answer 22

Both conventional and new crime can occur

Question 23

Wall (2001) identifies four categories of cybercrime:

Answer 23

1. Cyber trespass - crossing boundaries into others cyber property - hacking and sabotage.
2. Cyber deception including identity therefore phishing(illegally obta@ining bank details)
   and violation of intellectual property.
3. Cyber pornography - Including porn involving minors and children access porn through the
   internet.
4. Cyber violence -doing psychological harm or inciting physical harm. Cyber violence
   includes cyber stalking and hate crimes online.