Media and Crime Flashcards
Changes in the portrayal of crime.
Police now shown as corrupt SCHEWINGDER AND TUMBLER - 60s petty and murder 90s extraordinary as no death penalty. POSTMAN - infotainment. Victims central.
Media as a cause of crime
GREER AND REINER-
Internal- Glamourise, make seem okay.
External - Belittle police, make the risks seem a lot smaller.
Cause crime via
- Desensitising
- Glamourising
- Teaching techniques
- New form of crime
- Motivation for crime
HAYWARD AND YOUNG -
Use crime to advertise products - glamourise.
YOUNG - Bulimic society.
Moral entrepreneurs.
MORAL PANICS
COHEN - Mods and Rockers 1964 - the conflict exaggerated. Met news values as
- prediction
- exaggeration
- SYMBOLS - enable shallow links to be made.
Created further deviance as:
More arrests
More marginalised
Made two loose knit groups polarised against each other.
Moral panics occur during times of social change - Boundary crisis.
CRITICISMS
MCROBBIE AND THORNTON- rolling 24/7 news means could no longer happen, short shelf life.
CYBER CRIME
THOMAS AND LOADER- Activity mediated through a computer that is considered illegal at least by some that occurs on a global network.
SANTANNA - Fastest growing crime.
JEWES make traditional and new crime possible.
WALL- 4 types cyber tresspas cyber theft cyber violence cyber porn
Hard to police as global (2/3rds world) BUT also helped as CCTV, listening and tracking devices.
Portrayal of Crime.
FELSON -
Fallacy of age
fallacy of ingenuity
Dramatic fallacy
GREER AND REINER
Sexual and violent crime more predominant in media than in crime stats. Due to news values. DITTION AND DUFFY 46% of crime coverage, 2% real crime.
JEWES news values dictate whether crime will make the headlines. Has to be sensational, wide threshold, prediction, fear.
COHEN AND YOUNG - social construct
BAUDRILLARD - Hyper reality. Garland - thought crime rising but is falling.
SURETTE- Backwards law with fiction.
