media and crime

Question 1

cohen (moral panics)

Answer 1

-mods and rockers
-mods wore smart dresses and rode scooters
-rockers wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
-media portrayed the problem as getting out of hand
-portrayed them as folk devils with major threats to public order

Question 2

AO3 of cohen

Answer 2

-assumes the socetial reaction is an over reaction

Question 3

hall

Answer 3

-moral panic over ‘muggings’ to distract the crisis of captalism

Question 4

AO3 of hall
Mcrobbie and thorton

Answer 4

-argue moral panics are now routine and have less impact

Question 5

lea and young (relative deprivation)

Answer 5

-media presents everyone ‘materlistic’ goods life of leisure which they should conform
-leads to social exclusion of marginligised groups promoting crime

Question 6

schlesinger and tumber (fear of crime)

Answer 6

-correlation between media consumption and fear of crime
-making audience express greater fear of becoming a victim

Question 7

cohen and young (news values)

Answer 7

-news is not discovered but manufactured as editiors decide what is news worthy includes
-immediacy
-higher status
-dramatisation
-violence