media and crime

Question 1

what do ditton and duffy say about media and crime?

Answer 1

the media portrays victims to be older and more middle class when they’re usually neither.

Question 2

what are some ways that the media distort crime coverage?

Answer 2

exaggerate police success - police efficiency fallacy
overrepresent violent/sexual crimes
dramatic fallacy

Question 3

what is dramatic fallacy and who came up with it?

Answer 3

felson - the media overrepresenting violent and sexual crimes.

Question 4

what is news values?

Answer 4

criteria that journalists use to decide whether a story is newsworthy.

Question 5

examples of news values?

Answer 5

immediacy, dramatisation, high status, unexpectedness.

Question 6

what did the neomarxists glasgow media group find about media and crime?

Answer 6

news can influence how we view issues such as crime and criminal agenda.

Question 7

what is bulimic society?

Answer 7

young’s idea that we are constantly encouraged to overconsume.

Question 8

what can increase relative deprivation amongst marginalised groups?

Answer 8

the media

Question 9

what is the hypodermic syringe model?

Answer 9

some impressionable audiences may imitate violent or antisocial behaviour seen in media.

Question 10

what is an example of hypodermic syrige model?

Answer 10

murder of jamie bulger, his murderers may have been influeced by child’s play 3.

Question 11

what does wolf say about the media?

Answer 11

link between media representation of female beauty and eating disorders.

Question 12

briefly, how can themedia cause crime?

Answer 12

imitation, arousal, desensitisation, transmitting knowledge, stimulating desire, glamourising crime.

Question 13

what does bandura’s study show about aggressive behaviour?

Answer 13

could be learnt through observation. children exposed to aggressive behaviour were much more likely to be aggressive to the doll than children who exposed to nice behaviour.

Question 14

ao3 of bandura?

Answer 14

doesn’t measure long term effects of media as it was done in lab.

Question 15

ao3 of media causing crime?

Answer 15

everyone reacts differently to media based on age, social class, intelligence.
violence is probably more based on socialisation, peer group, mental illness.

Question 16

what does baudrillard say about the media and crime?

Answer 16

media helps people lose a sense of reality which may lead to stalking as reality and virtual world are blurred.

Question 17

what would post modernists say about the media?

Answer 17

it leads to hyper reality where viewers don’t know what is real or not.

Question 18

how does media create fear?

Answer 18

overexaggerates violent crime and risks of certain groups being victims eg young women
tumber- tabloid readers expressed greater fear.

Question 19

ao3 of media creating fear?

Answer 19

if people are just more afraid, they’re more likely to stay at home and end up consuming media, undermining casual link.

Question 20

what are 3 ways the media may overreact to deviance?

Answer 20

exaggeration/distortion.
prediction of further deviance.
symbolisation - symbols negatively labelled drawing more differences leading to SFP.

Question 21

ao3 of moral panic?

Answer 21

functionalists argue moral panic is a way of responding to anomie created by social change - media needs to reassert values.
neo-marxists say moral panics serve capitalism.
mcrobbie - it s harder to create moral panic in late modern society due to less consensus on values.

Question 22

what do thomas and loader say cybercrime is?

Answer 22

computer mediated activities that are illegal/illicit and conducted through electronic networks.

Question 23

what are wall’s 4 categories of cybercrime?

Answer 23

cyber-tresspass - hacking
cyber-deception - identity theft
cyber-pornography - indecent pictures of children
cyber-violence - text bullying

Question 24

ao3 of cybercrime?

Answer 24

so difficult to monitor due to globalisation of internet, may be in another country.
allows better surveillance such as cctv, electronic databases.

Question 25

what does jewkes say about the internet and crime?

Answer 25

creates opportunities for both conventional crimes and new crimes.