Media And Crime Flashcards
What did Schlesinger and Turner find ?
In 1960s crime focused on murder and petty crime
But in 1990s started reporting drug crime and widening the news
How much of media preoccupation is about sexual orientation?
1/3
What do Young and Cohen argue ?
News is a social construct
What are key news values ?
•immediacy - breaking news
•dramatisation - how engaging it is
•higher status - celebrities
•unexpectedness - a new angle
•risk - victims centred
What does a news value do ?
Decide whether a story is interesting enough to be reported on
What is a moral panic ?
Reaction to an over exaggerated problem
What are the three key elements for a moral panic ?
1)media identify group as “folk devil “
2)group presented in a negative limelight
3)moral entrepreneurs condemn group
What did cohen study ?
Mods and Rockers
What three elements did cohen find through mods and rockers study?
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
What does Cohen think lead to moral panics ?
He believes it was a result of boundary crisis - time of acceptable unacceptable behaviour
Examples of moral panics
•mugging
•child sex Abuse
•binge drinking
What are evaluations of moral panic ?
•assume people over react -especially left realists
According to Williams and Dickinson how much space is devoted to crime ?
30%
How much sexual and violent crimes are reported in the media ?
46%
How many sexual crimes are there in the official statistics?
3%
Who talks about sexual crimes?
Dutton and Duffy
What is the age fallacy?
When victims and criminals portrayed as older
Which theorist talks about age fallacy?
Felson
True or False :
Media coverage exaggerate police success
True
Give ways media present distorted views of crime
•media exaggerate risk of victimisation
•media overdramatise “Dramatic Fallacy”
What did Gerner find ?
People who watch more than 4 hours of crime fall into crime
Which theorist found there is a link about media consumption and fear of crime ?Tabloid readers become victims of crime
Schlesinger and Tumber
What did Greer and Reiner find ?
Everyone has different reactions to horror films
-people laugh
-people get scared
What are some ways the media are a cause of crime?
•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
What did schramm say about television ?
Beneficial to younger people and harmful to others
What does media increase and how ?
Relative deprivation as things advertised to you and can’t obtain goods through legitimate means do obtain through illegitimate means
Which theorist say crime is encouraged?
Hayward and Young
What does Surette talk about?
Law of opposites
What are some impacts of new media ?
*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
