media and crime

Question 1

what % of media reports are on sexual or violent crime?

Answer 1

46% despite them making up only 3% of crimes recorded

Question 2

how do the media present police officers?

Answer 2

heroic light

Question 3

Galtung and rouge

Answer 3

News is socially constructed

Question 4

folk devils

Answer 4

a group of people unfairly treated by the media and politicians

Question 5

deviancy amplification spiral: cohen

Answer 5

• argues the media’s portrayal of events produced a deviance amplificantion spiral by making it seem as if things are ‘out of hand’
• this leads to increase control response from the police and courts
• this produces further marginalisation and stigmatisation of folk devils

Question 6

AO3:

Answer 6

some moral panics are not based on unfair targetting
(e.g sex-related crimes)