Media and Crime Flashcards
What is a stereotype?
Cognitive structures that make assumptions of groups.
What is the least effective way of stopping crime?
Punishment
What does the media use crime for?
To push an agenda
What is cultivation theory?
The media cultivates an unrealistic picture of what crime is actually doing.
What are the four associated hypotheses?
Substitution, resonance, affinity and vulnerability.
What is a substitution hypotheses?
A hypothesis that is stronger in absense of personal opinion
What is a resonance hypothesis?
A hypothesis which is stronger in the presence of personal opinion.
What is an affinity hypothesis?
A hypothesis which is stronger in the presence of fictional victims.
What is a vulnerability hypothesis?
A hypothesis which is stronger in the presence of those who feel most vulnerable.
What is herostatic fame?
Where someone does something to seek notoriety.
Wha it’s a folk devil?
A scapegoat for a problem in society.
What is a moral panic?
A state of heightened alarm because the moral standard of society is in jeopardy.
What is deviancy amplification?
Happens when a primary deviance leads to a label/moral panic/folk devil which leads to more deviance.
What is the deviancy amplification spiral? (7)
Initial problem, initial solution, people’s reaction, exploitation & stereotypes, increased deviance and confirmation of stereotypes.
In what way might the media be criminogenic?
They can contribute to a moral panic and the creation of stereotypes.
