Mass Media and Crime

Question 1

What did Dilton and Duffy find?

Answer 1

46% of media reports were about sexual and violent crimes but these only made up 3% of recorded crime.

Question 2

What did Marsh find?

Answer 2

Violent crime was 36 times more likely to be reported in the news then property crime.

Question 3

What did Felson find?

Answer 3

The age fallacy, the fact that most victims are young and living in deprived communities. Victimization happening more in EMG groups. He also came up with the “dramatic fallacy,” where the media focuses on the weird and wonderful whilst also implying that criminals are all intelligent and calculated.

Question 4

Why can it be said that media coverage exaggerates police success?

Answer 4

The focus of the media is on violent crime that has a higher clear up rate then property crime. Plus the police are higher on the hierarchy of credibility.

Question 5

What did Schlesinger and Tumbler find?

Answer 5

In the 1960s, media coverage had been focused on murders and petty crime. In the 1990s, the focus was widened to include drugs, child abuse, terrorism, football holloginsim and muggings.

Question 6

What did Jack Young find?

Answer 6

The news is not discovered but manufactered.

Question 7

What are the 6 news values?

Answer 7

1.Extrodinariness. 2. Threshold. 3. Reference to elite persons/nations. 4, Personalization. 5. Negativity. 6. Unambiguity

Question 8

What did Greer and Reiner point out?

Answer 8

The media are always seeking newsworthy stories and they exploit the possibilities of a good story by sensationalising events out of proportion for the audience.

Question 9

What did Greer find?

Answer 9

News values explain why ALL news media tend to exaggerate the extent of violent crime and why practically any form of deviance from celebrities’ receives massive media coverage.

Question 10

What did Surette come up with?

Answer 10

Fictional representations of crimes follow the law of opposites. They are in opposition to the crime statistics shown by the government, for example property crime is under represented whilst drug related crimes are over represented. Fictional crimes are often committed by a pscyopathic stranger not friends and family like in reality. However there is a new trend that shows the reality of corruption in police and a more realistic portrayal of victims can be seen.

Question 11

How has crime become infotainment?

Answer 11

Media violence particularly murder and theft have become apart of normal media such as true crime youtubers.

Question 12

What did Hayward and Young say?

Answer 12

Advertisers use images of crime and deviance to attract consumers from a youth market such as games like grand theft auto which are presented as cool and exciting.

Question 13

What did Banduars study show?

Answer 13

That the media could influence people to act aggressively.

Question 14

What did Gerbner find?

Answer 14

If you consume more media then you fear crime more.

Question 15

What is a critism of Gerbner?

Answer 15

Those who have a higher fear of crime may just be staying in more and therefore consuming more media.

Question 16

What did Jewkes find?

Answer 16

The internet creates opportunities to commit both conventional crimes such as fraud and new ones such as software privacy.

Question 17

What did Wall identify as the 4 categories of cyber crime?

Answer 17

1. Cyber trespass. 2. Cyber Deception. 3. Cyber pornography. 4. Cyber violence.

Question 18

What’s cyber trespass?

Answer 18

Crossing boundaries into others cyber property, hacking and sabotage.

Question 19

What’s cyber deception?

Answer 19

Phishing and violation of intellectual property.

Question 20

What’s cyber violence?

Answer 20

Doing psychological harm or inciting physical harm. It includes cyber stalking and online hate crimes.

Question 21

Why is global cyber crime difficult to police?

Answer 21

The sheer scale of the internet and the limited recourses of the police. The globalised nature also causes problems for which polices jurisdiction it should be the responsibility of. Police culture also gives it less of a priority as it is not as exciting for police.