Media And Crime

Question 1

What did Schlesinger and Turner find ?

Answer 1

In 1960s crime focused on murder and petty crime
But in 1990s started reporting drug crime and widening the news

Question 2

How much of media preoccupation is about sexual orientation?

Answer 2

1/3

Question 3

What do Young and Cohen argue ?

Answer 3

News is a social construct

Question 4

What are key news values ?

Answer 4

•immediacy - breaking news
•dramatisation - how engaging it is
•higher status - celebrities
•unexpectedness - a new angle
•risk - victims centred

Question 5

What does a news value do ?

Answer 5

Decide whether a story is interesting enough to be reported on

Question 6

What is a moral panic ?

Answer 6

Reaction to an over exaggerated problem

Question 7

What are the three key elements for a moral panic ?

Answer 7

1)media identify group as “folk devil “
2)group presented in a negative limelight
3)moral entrepreneurs condemn group

Question 8

What did cohen study ?

Answer 8

Mods and Rockers

Question 9

What three elements did cohen find through mods and rockers study?

Answer 9

1)Exaggeration and Distortion -media exaggerated headlines this leads to people waiting for violence that isn’t going to occur
2)Predictions- people assume more conflict
3)Symbolism-the clothes represent how to spot dangerous person

Question 10

What does Cohen think lead to moral panics ?

Answer 10

He believes it was a result of boundary crisis - time of acceptable unacceptable behaviour

Question 11

Examples of moral panics

Answer 11

•mugging
•child sex Abuse
•binge drinking

Question 12

What are evaluations of moral panic ?

Answer 12

•assume people over react -especially left realists

Question 13

According to Williams and Dickinson how much space is devoted to crime ?

Answer 13

30%

Question 14

How much sexual and violent crimes are reported in the media ?

Answer 14

46%

Question 15

How many sexual crimes are there in the official statistics?

Answer 15

3%

Question 16

Who talks about sexual crimes?

Answer 16

Dutton and Duffy

Question 17

What is the age fallacy?

Answer 17

When victims and criminals portrayed as older

Question 18

Which theorist talks about age fallacy?

Answer 18

Felson

Question 19

True or False :
Media coverage exaggerate police success

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Give ways media present distorted views of crime

Answer 20

•media exaggerate risk of victimisation
•media overdramatise “Dramatic Fallacy”

Question 21

What did Gerner find ?

Answer 21

People who watch more than 4 hours of crime fall into crime

Question 22

Which theorist found there is a link about media consumption and fear of crime ?Tabloid readers become victims of crime

Answer 22

Schlesinger and Tumber

Question 23

What did Greer and Reiner find ?

Answer 23

Everyone has different reactions to horror films
-people laugh
-people get scared

Question 24

What are some ways the media are a cause of crime?

Answer 24

•imitation-role models
•arousal - view violent images
•Dissensitisation -people don’t get scared as they are used to it so doesn’t affect them
•transmission of knowledge-media allows you to gain knowledge of more criminal techniques e.g.violent video games such as call of duty -killing
•stimulating desires - unaffordable goods
•glamourising offender e.g.YOU
•police incompetent

Question 25

What did schramm say about television ?

Answer 25

Beneficial to younger people and harmful to others

Question 26

What does media increase and how ?

Answer 26

Relative deprivation as things advertised to you and can’t obtain goods through legitimate means do obtain through illegitimate means

Question 27

Which theorist say crime is encouraged?

Answer 27

Hayward and Young

Question 28

What does Surette talk about?

Answer 28

Law of opposites

Question 29

What are some impacts of new media ?

Answer 29

*cyber deception and theft - identity theft
*cyber pornography - porn including minors
*cyber trespass - cross boundaries into other people cyber network e.g.hacking
*cyber violence - hate crimes , bullying