Media and Crime

Question 1

Bandura

Answer 1

Bobo doll study

children saw adults being violent towards doll and coped

Question 2

Media can effect you in 3 ways

Answer 2

1. copy cat behaviour
2. distrihibition, less pressure to conform to norms and values
3. desensitisation, think criminal behaviour is normal

Question 3

5 ways media distorts the reality of crime

Answer 3

• stereotypes of gender–> men commit the most crime
• distort likiehood of being a victim–> women and old
• types of crime, unrealistic, terrorism
• offenders, w.c, black men, ignores white collar
• scale, media exaggerates the amount happening

Question 4

Hyperderminc syringe model

Answer 4

media chooses content to publish and we passively accept this to be true

Question 5

construct reality of crime

Answer 5

1. Agenda- media are selective in what they show and discussions laid down by pass media, e.g right wing newspapers show black w.c street crime
2. News value- journalist views on what makes events newsworthy, value based on: predictability, violence, children, personalisation
3. exaggeration- dramatising crime to generate interest gives false impression of extent off crime, exaggerate the risk of being a victim