Media and Crime Flashcards
What is infotainment?
There are two types of crime coverage which are fictional and non-fictional.
Crime is packaged to entertain people.
What do Greer and Reiner suggest?
Coverage can be misleading and news reports are distorted because they:
Over-represent violent and sexual crime.
They under-represent the risks of property crime
Tend to present crime as a series of seperate incidents.
Over-exaggerate police effectiveness.
What does Surette argue? (3)
There is a backwards law where the media conduct images of crime and justice whcih are the opposite or backwards versions of reality.
E.G: stereotypes if certain groups or crime is seen as a w/c phenomena.
What does Young argue?
News is not discovered it is actually manufactured. There are different news values that journalists have that make something a good story.
What are the 7 news values that Young states?
Immediacy
Dramatisation
Proximity
Personalisation
Higher status
Risk
Violence
What would Left Realists say about the media reporting of crime?
Suggests that media reporting of crime disguises the reality that both offenders are victims are mainly w/c and poor.
What would Right Realists say about the media reporting of crime? (2)
They are critical of the news because it is generated by the bourgeoisie and t serves to benefit them.
They also hide the significance of white collar crime and corporate crime.
How is the media a cause of crime? (2)
Crime may be criminogenic.
E.G: Copycat crimes - Scarlett Jenkinson researched serial killers and had a hitlist.
What is a hypodermic syringe?
The media inject values, ideas and information directly into the passive receiver which produces effects and has a negative influence on thoughts and actions.
What do Greer and Reiner argue about possible criminogenice effects of the media? (5)
Providing targets for crime
Motives for crime
Knowledge and learning of criminal techniques
Absence of controls
Labelling and deviancy amplification.
What is cultural crimonology? (2)
Howard and Young: argue that media turn crime itself into the commodity that people desire by encouraging their audiences to consume crime.
Crime is packaged and marketed to young people as cool and exciting.
What are criticisms of the hypodermic syringe model? (2)
Too deterministic - not everyone who consumed crimes through the media becomes a criminal.
Newburn: more than 1000 studies concluded that the link between media and violent behaviour was ‘not proven’ and children displaying tendencies to violence may have had tendencies regardless of television viewing.
How can the media cause crime and deviance? (4)
Through labelling.
The media exaggerate their reporting of crime which can create a moral panic.
The deviants are labelled as folk devils and then there is a crackdown for society.
But action can actually amplify what was originally minor deviance and the media can make things worse which is deviance amplification.
How is the moral panic outdated? (4)
There are now several factors that undermine the relevance of the new media which is:
Frequency - moral panics are now routine, they are less noteworthy.
Difficulty - there is less certainty about what is bad nowadays.
Rebound - now a danger for rebound for people who start moral panics.
What is cyber crime?
A wide range of criminal acts committed with the help of ICT.
Cyber crime is glocal as many offenders and offences have links outside of the UK.