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Media Flashcards

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Eriksen et al

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45%-71% of quality press time is about some form of deviance

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Williams and Dickinson

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30% of British media is dedicated to crime

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Me£is over reps violent and sexual crimes

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Dilton and Duffy - 46% of reports are sexual and violent however onl6 make up 3% of crime reports

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Media over represents police success

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  • police are the source so want representation to portray them in a positive light
  • also over represent violent crime which has higher clean up rate
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Media over plays extraordinary crime

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  • felson dramaric falecy
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Changes in media - Schlesinger and tumber

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  • 1960 murder and petty crime
  • 1990 - widen to include child abuse deugs football hooliganism
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Soothill and walby - sex crime

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  • news paper report of sex crime under 1/4 in 1951 to over 1/3
  • focus on identifying a beast provide a distorted picture ( serial rapist )
  • common to be someone known
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Crim coverage

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  • evidence that it is socially constructed
  • there is a processs of selection / rejection
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S cohen and young

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  • news is manufactured not discovered
  • has a set of news values which journalist and editor go through to decide whether the story is worthy
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News values

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  • immediacy - dramatisation- personalisation
  • high status - simplification- novelty - risk - violence
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Fictional representation of crime

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  • don’t just get our knowledge from the news media
  • to cinama novel are also important sources
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Mandel

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  • 1945 -1984 10 billon crime thriller sold worldwide
  • 25% of prime time tv 20% film are crime show or tv show
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Surette

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Law of opposites : fictopional rep are opposite to crime statistics
- property crime under rep
- homocide - fiction show greed and calculat
- sex crime - committed by serial stranger
- police - get the bad guy

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Media causes crime

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1920s - media blamed for current youth
1950 horror blamed for moral decline
1980 video nasties

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Ways media caused crime

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  • imitation- arosal desensitisation - stimulate desire - portray police as imcompetent - glamorise offending
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Schramm et al

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  • the effects of tv veiwing on Christian
    • tv is neither benifial or harmful
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Livingstone

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  • people continue to be preoccupied with the effects of media on Chrildren because of our desire to regard childhood as a time for uncomtaminated innocence
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Gerbner

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  • link between media and fear of crime
  • heaven media uses 4+ hr had higher levels of fear
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Schelesinger and tumber - media

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  • correlation between media usage and crime
    Tabloid reader tv , greater fear of being victim
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Greer and reiner

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  • effect of research on media and fear of cr8mr ignore the meaning that users give to crime
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The media and relative deprivation

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  • how media rep norm lead to commit crime
  • left realist - mass media increas sence of relative dep
  • Everyone has access to media even the poorest groups represents the norm which people should conform groups marginalised because they can’t afford representation. This leads to strain.
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Cultral crime -

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  • media turns crime into a commodity that people desire
  • media encourage consumption of crime
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Hayward and young

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  • late modern society as media saturated , immersed into media scape
  • blur between image and reality , no longer sepreate and distinct
  • media constitute as real thing eg police car camera doesn’t jus5 record alter way police work , cops promo
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Media and commodity of crime

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A feature of late modern society is the emphasis of ecpxcitement consumption and immmediate

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Harwood and young corporation adverts

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  • use crime to sell products example of car ads feature : street riot joyriding suside bombing graffiti
    Fashion industry images of heroine chic violence against women
  • clothing section 60 named after section given police right to stop and search
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Moral panic

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An over reaction by society to percived problem

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What happens during a moral panic

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  • media identified devil folk
  • portrays the group using negative stereotypes
  • moral entrepreneurs condem group
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What does a moral pan8c lead to

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  • self fulfilling prophecy that apmlipgy problem eg drugs - task force created lead to police find more drug taking
  • as it identified more deviance tougher action leading to a deviance amplification spiral
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Cohen - folk devil and moral panic

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  • looked at media response to mod and rockers
  • at first no identification and not clear cut , one day a minor scuffle
  • media over reacted media produced and inventory of what happened, three elements ; over exaggeration prediction and symbolism
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Cohen - folk devil and moral panic

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  • looked at media response to mod and rockers
  • at first no identification and not clear cut , one day a minor scuffle
  • media over reacted media produced and inventory of what happened, three elements ; over exaggeration prediction and symbolism
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Deviance amplification spiral

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Media portrayal of event lead to a deviance amplification- calls for increase in police which lead to created control thus groups are then marginalised and stigmatised
- media amplify deviance by defining two loose knit groups as tightly knit gang - polarise leads to self fulfilling prophecy
- media critical for moral panic

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Wider context cohen

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  • happen post war period
  • moral panic happen during change reflect anxiety people feel when accept value undermined
  • moral panic boundary crisis uncertainty of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
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Functionalist moral panic

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  • respond to normlessness
  • dramatise threat in form of folk devil- collective concious when value threatens
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Neomarxist hall et al

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Moral in context of capitalism
- moral panic over mugging in 1970 distraction from capitalism divided working class on racial ground legitimate authoritarian way of rule

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Critism of moral panic

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  • it assume society reaction is disproportionate - left veiw it as rational
  • moral panic have less impact little concedes over what is deviant

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