Media And Crime

Question 1

Gerbner

Answer 1

Gerbner found that heavy users of television (four hours or more a day) had higher levels of fear of crime.

Question 2

Cohen

Answer 2

Defines how the media causes deviance amplification as portrayals made it seem like the crimes were getting out of hand which led the police to attempt to control it which marginalised them more and so they commited more crime leading to a escalating spiral.

Question 3

Criticism of moral panic

Answer 3

Mcrobbie and thorton argue that moral panics have less impact today due to late modernity as people are used to these “shock and horror stories”

Question 4

Moral panic

Answer 4

Exaggerated over-reaction by society to a perceived problem that usually driven or inspired by the media that enlarges the problem out of all proportion to its real seriousness

Question 5

Jewkes

Answer 5

Jewkes argues how the internet creates opportunities to commit conventional crimes such as fraud and new crimes using new tools such as software piracy