media and crime

Question 1

how does the media show a distorted view of crime

Answer 1

1- over represents violence and sexual crime
2- overexaggerates police success
3- exaggerates the intellegence of offenders

Question 2

what do cohen and young claim news is

Answer 2

manufactured and is therfore not a reliable source

they also claim news is a social construct as journlaists carefully select the news stories

Question 3

news values - immediancy

Answer 3

if its seen as breaking news, its more attractive

Question 4

news values - dramatisation

Answer 4

when news is exciting an potentailly dangerous - usally violent

Question 5

news values - personalisation

Answer 5

when news is easy to relate to

Question 6

news values - high status victims or offenders

Answer 6

such as celebrities

Question 7

news values - simplification

Answer 7

when news is easy to understand

Question 8

news values - novelty

Answer 8

when news is unique

Question 9

what is imitation

Answer 9

encouraging copycat behaviour

Question 10

what is arousal

Answer 10

excitement causes by the media encouraging people to commit crime

Question 11

what is desensitisation

Answer 11

because the media is full of shocking images, people then start to see violence as normal

Question 12

transmitting criminal techniques

Answer 12

exposing how criminals commit crime

Question 13

consumerism in crime

Answer 13

by promoting the desire to have consumer iteams,, when someone cannot have these things the may turn to crime to get them

Question 14

what is moral panic

Answer 14

public concern due to exaggerated responses in the media and distorting reports

Question 15

what are folk devils

Answer 15

a group who are a threat to societys values

Question 16

what are the aims of a moral panic

Answer 16

1- give folk devils increased exposure

2- encourage moral entrepreneurs from all aspects of society to condemn their behaviour in the media

Question 17

who studied the mods and rockers

Answer 17

cohen

Question 18

what did the mods and rockers study focus on

Answer 18

the conflict between the two groups in the 1960s as an example of how influential a moral panic can be

Question 19

what was the day of terror

Answer 19

in 1964 there was a clear distinction made between the mods and rockers when a minor scuffle was announced in the media but rather saying there was a scuffle between the two groups it was called the day of terror to make it sound worse than it was

Question 20

what was the hyperdermic syringe approach

Answer 20

drip fed ideas that are passively accpeted