Media & Crime - 10/20marker

Question 1

Wilkins
(interactionist)

Answer 1

-Deviancy amplification spiral
-Media exaggeration causes crime

Question 2

Cohen
(interactionist)

Answer 2

-Folk devils & moral panic
-Mods & rockers
-Application of Wilkins

Question 3

Young
(left realist)

Answer 3

-Hippies = labelling
-Drugs - deviancy amplification

Question 4

Beck
(postmodernist)

Answer 4

-Risk society
-More aware of potential risks
-Target groups

Question 5

Garfinkel
(functionalist)

Answer 5

-Degredation
-Media reports on crime
-Reduces status

Question 6

Braithwaite
(interactionist)

Answer 6

-Disintegrative shaming

Question 7

Becker
(interactionist)

Answer 7

-Master status

Question 8

Hall
(neo-marxist)

Answer 8

-Moral panic
-Media-focuses on some groups
-Divert from problems of capitalism
-Black muggers

Question 9

Chambliss
(marxist)

Answer 9

-Crime as a diversion from capitalist exploitation

Question 10

Merton
(functionalist)

Answer 10

-Strain
-Ambition-media
-Reality
-I C RRR

Question 11

Lea & Young
(left realist)

Answer 11

-Relative deprivation
-Compare with middle classes

Question 12

Young
(left realist)

Answer 12

-Vertigo of late modernity, media creates frustration
-Social bullimia, culturally included economically excluded, share goals because of media

Question 13

Bandura

Answer 13

-Bobo doll experiment
-Desensitising effect of media