media and crime

Question 1

Give an example of a crime show

Answer 1

Criminal minds

Question 2

what percent of the news is crime and deviance

Answer 2

70 percent

Question 3

what is agenda setting

Answer 3

when the news produce a distorted image of crime and policing

media can manage which issues are presented to the public and which issues arent shown

changes people perception on crime because they are influenced by media

Question 4

what type of crime does the media overrepresent

Answer 4

violent and sexual crime

over 40% of crime reported by the media was sexual crime

however these only make up for 3% of crime

gives impression that more sexual and violent crime occurs

Question 5

what type of person does the media represent to do more crime

Answer 5

older
middle class

in reality, criminals are more likely to be young and working class

Question 6

what is age fallacy

Answer 6

when the media portray older people to be more criminal, when in reality it is young people.

socially constructing media

Question 7

what type of people do the media exagerrate victimisation of

Answer 7

women
white people
people with higher status (celebrities, rich people)

Question 8

what type of crime does the media prefer to publish.

extraordinary or ordinary.

Answer 8

extraordinary
media underplays ordinary crimes.

Question 9

What is the dramatic fallacy of the media

Answer 9

they only represent unbelievable crimes, not ordinary crimes

Question 10

how do the media exagerrate police success

Answer 10

in fictional shows, police always catch the bad guy.
non fictional shows, police are presented in a good light.

Question 11

how could violent video games increase rate of crime

Answer 11

encourages violence and criminality

e.g. gta

Question 12

what are 3 features of the media which can cause crime and deviance

Answer 12

desensitisation- continuous viewing of violence without it being censored

advertisements- increasing individual desire for unaffordable goods.

transmits knowledge of criminal techniques.

Question 13

what is a opposing view that the media doesnt cause crime

Answer 13

Schramm et all

all children experience different effects from media consumption, some have positive effects, some have negative effects.

Question 14

why are people so occupied with how media effects children

Answer 14

because society has a desire to protect childhood because it is a period of uncontaminated innocence

Question 15

what are the two links between media and crime

Answer 15

relative deprivation

CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY

Question 16

what type of sociologist believe the media causes relative deprivation

what is relative deprivatiom

Answer 16

Left realism-
the mass media help increase a sense of relative deprivation

relative deprivation- feeling deprived of something people believe they are entitled to, which others in society may possess

Question 17

how does the media cause relative deprivation

Answer 17

LEA AND YOUNG
LEFT REALISM

media has socially constructed a image of life, which for unemployed people or individuals living in poverty have developed a sense of relative deprivation

possible because ALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE, have access to the media, but not desirable goods.

people turn to crime, because they cant achieve through legitimate means

Question 18

what is cultural criminology

Answer 18

arguement that the media has turned crime to a desirable product.

we are constantly exposed to crime images and stories, which people then cant distinguish between image and reality of crime

Question 19

what is media like in late modern society

Answer 19

media saturated society
every age, class,ethnicity gender is vastly exposed to media

Question 20

how does cultural criminology cause crime

Answer 20

excessive exposure to crime media, due to its thrill it is admired and seen as a treat.

businesses use media crime to sell products. e.g. gangster rap combining lyrics of street crime with images of designer clothing and jewelery

Question 21

how is crime displayed in the media

Answer 21

cool

Question 22

What did gerbner et al find out about fear of crime

Answer 22

tv users of over 4 hrs had a higher fear of crime

Question 23

what is the correlation betwen media consumption and fear of crime

Answer 23

heavy media consumers express a higher fear of becoming a crime victim

Question 24

what are the criticisms of the fear of crime

Answer 24

maybe people who are fearful of crime, consume more media and stay at home due to their fear

ignores how people may view violence in the media differently to others.

to truly understand the effect of crime and media we need to look at deeper meanings

Question 25

what is a moral panic

Answer 25

an exagerrated over reaction by society to a perceived problem usually driven by media

Question 26

what are folk devils

Answer 26

groups targeted by moral panics. groups seen as evil or a threat to society by the media

Question 27

what is the black mugging example for moral panics

Answer 27

during the 70's the media managed to generate a moral panic over the increase of black muggers. in reality, this crime wasn't increasing. result- excluding black people from society

Question 28

what is the functionalism explanation of moral panics

Answer 28

cohen argues that moral panics occur during periods of social change dramatising the folk devil threat, is raises societal consciousness and social control when values are being threatened. (society is more aware, protection of societal togetherness and solidarity).

Question 29

what is the neomarxist explanation of moral panic

Answer 29

moral panics are a distraction away from capitalist crisis. for example, the black muggers study

Question 30

evaluate moral panic

Answer 30

moral panics have less impact in late modern society as people are now used to medias exaggerated reporting the moral panic theory is said to be society overreacting. who is to decide what an appropriate reaction is?