Media and crime

Question 1

What is the media believed to do in relation to crime

Answer 1

Overly represents crime due to the nasic news values.

Question 2

What are the basic news values

Answer 2

Immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher status, simplification, risk, violence, proximity, ambiguity

Question 3

How may the media be blamed as a source of crime

Answer 3

mutation - the media provides deviant role models, which results in copying their behaviour
Arousal - viewing violent or sexual imagery
Desensitisation - repeated viewing of violence
Transmission of knowledge of criminal techniques
Stimulating desires for unaffordable goods (eg. through advertising)
​Glamourising offending

Question 4

How does the media distort the view of crime

Answer 4

Overrepresentation of sexual and violent crime
Exaggerates police success
Exaggerates the risk of victimisation
Overplay extraordinary crime

Question 5

Examples of crime in media

Answer 5

Cohen - mods and rockers 1960s
Young - Notting hill hippies in 1971, originally primary deviance, just differences between hippies and mainstream society, later secondary deviance
Lea Betts estacy pill
James Bulgar

Question 6

Lea and Young

Answer 6

media creates relative deprivation by promoting a capitalistic society and lifestyle

Question 7

Hypodermic syringe model

Answer 7

We are pumped media into us which we live by

Question 8

Evaluations

Answer 8

Argues that audienced ar epassive
Some people use media to take out violent fustration, video games, pluralists, can chose the media we consume

Question 9

What proves imitation is a real thing

Answer 9

Bandura’s bobo doll