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
