Media and Crime

Question 1

Williams and Dickinson

Answer 1

Newspapers devote up to 30% of news space to crime

Question 2

Soothill and Walby

Answer 2

Newspaper reporting of sex crimes increased from under 1/4 (1950s) to over 1/3 (1980s)

Question 3

Felson

Answer 3

Age Fallacy
. Portrays criminals/victims as old MC

Question 4

Cohen and Young

Answer 4

The news is manufactured

Question 5

Mandel

Answer 5

Estimates from 1940-80s over 10 billion crime thrillers sold worldwide
^ important sources of our knowledge about crime (Fictional Representation)

Question 6

Livingstone

Answer 6

People pre-occupied with effects of media on kids - desire as society to maintain childhood as innocent in private sphere

Question 7

Fenwick and Hayward

Answer 7

Crime is packaged and marketed to youth as fashionable culture capital

Question 8

Gerbner et al

Answer 8

Heavy users of tv had higher fear
^ correlations don’t prove media viewing causes fear - those already afraid of going out watch more tv

Question 9

Cohen

Answer 9

Media produce inventory of 3 elements:
1. Exaggeration and distortion
2. Predciction
3. Symbolism

Question 10

Cohen
(Amplification Spiral)

Answer 10

. Media portrayls of events produce deviance amplification spiral
. Defintions are crucial in creating moral panic as manys’ only source of info

Question 11

Cohen
(Wider Context)

Answer 11

Moral panics often occur at times of social change - anxieties over accepted values undermined
^ moral panic result of boundary crisis

Question 12

McRobbie and Thornton

Answer 12

Moral panics now routine in late modernity - little consensus over what is deviant

Question 13

Jewkes

Answer 13

Internet creates opportunities to commit conventional crimes and hate crimes