Media Flashcards
Greer and Reiner
-newspaper now devote time towards serious crime
-violent crime is more likely to be seen in news than property and street crime
-homicide make up a third of all reports
Peelo
Homicide in 3 national newspapers
-40% homicides reported nationally
-more likely to get coverage if involves sexual and money motives
-murder of children and women high coverage
Newborn
Media misleading when compared to official statistics
-higher status and old, actually young
-exaggerates risk of being a victim
-series of individual incidents and have little coverage of pattern
Dramatic fallacy/romanticise
Ingenuity fallacy/believe that you have to be clever to commit a crime
Pluralism
State that government balance interests so that each group in society get some of what they want but nobody gets their own way all the time
-Media reflects interest of the public to generate income e.g. BBC
Jewkes
Due to social media the media became more diverse therefore potential for groups to challenge government
Stated there was new values that shaped selection of content
- sex
- drama based
- violence
Cohen and Young
Manufactured picture of society present in crime news
Reiner
Crime coverage trends
-Bad negative news
-victim culture, innocence
-law and order solutions seen as the only way to tackle crime
Suggests emphasis on individualism
Evaluation of Cohen + Young and Reiner
-little discussion on the role of the welfare in preventing crime
-Media coverage assuming existing social order is secure and fair
-supports conservative ideology of zero tolerance
-not all coverage fits model put forward e.g. BP deep water
Effects of the media on crime
-Media is criminogenic/make crime worse
-Home office statistics 2015- 5.1million of online fraud
-Mods and rockers
Greer and Reiner
-Criminogenic effects
-Opportunity
-Absence of control, CJS as corrupt and police racist
-Means, learn techniques
-Motives, stimulate desire
Bandura Bobo doll experiment
-some children shown clip of cartoons being violent while control group were not
-Former group 2x as aggressive towards dolls
-However, unnatural setting and repetition had varied results
Wartella
Associations between the tendency to watch violent tv and the likelihood of being convicted of violent offences
Jewkes- disagreed and said people take different messages from films from the same term e.g. criminal hero or evil
Positive of crime
-helps to solve crime and locate suspects
-awareness
-alert public to danger
-media put pressure on gov and CJS
-helps define moral boundaries
