media representations of crime and criminality

Question 1

how does the media influence legislative and policy changes?

Answer 1

• police use media to call on for support
• ppl begin to support tough on crime measures by supporting stricter laws and longer sentences that are innapropriate
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Question 2

how do racial victims suffer from media message?

Answer 2

• minority victims often ignored
• blamed for their victimization

Question 3

how does media concentration limit perspectives?

Answer 3

they tend to report on the same things in the same ways

Question 4

what is the relationship b/w gender and media messages?

Answer 4

• public cinsciousness that male = criminal
• media demonizes female offenders particularily when they commit crimes of violence
• media hold female victims responsible
• mansulinization of women

Question 5

what is the issue with race and the media?

Answer 5

racial identification ends up creating connection b/w race and criminality

Question 6

what is an example of race and media messages?

Answer 6

Jane Creba and Woodcock

• Jane caught in cross fire b/w 2 rival gangs
• portrayed victim as innocent (in a sense she was purified)
• juxtaposition of black communities and violence
• woodcock portrayed as having no respect for canadian values and the emphasis on his jamaican heritage

Question 7

what are the 3 consequences of media exposure?

Answer 7

• disported perceptions
• unrealistic expectations
• legislative and policy changes

Question 8

media is typically ideologicxally conservative

Answer 8

true

Question 9

how does the medias distorted perspectives influence society?

Answer 9

• ppl believe crime more prevelant than it actually is
• ppl underestimate severity of punishment
• underestimate success of rehabilitive efforts
• this is how there comes to be higher tough on crime support

Question 10

what is central to the prediction of the media strategies

Answer 10

• an incident gets transformed into an instance
• worst case presented as typical case

Question 11

what are the 3 aspects of media strategies

Answer 11

• exaggeration and distortion
• prediction
• symbolization

Question 12

what is an example of the legislative and policy changes that is perpetuated by the media?

Answer 12

Ontario sex offender registry

• police used media to call for support to iniciate it
• incident with a girl called Holly Jones
• What was left out of the discussion was that the man who was convicted had no criminal history of sexual offences

Question 13

what is the symbolic relationhsip b/w the media and police

Answer 13

• police want media to get their message out
• media need insight/evidence to produce a story

Question 15

unrealistic expectations pits society against criminals

Answer 15

True

Question 16

how is crime framed in specific ways?

Answer 16

usually crime is framed as individual issues

• corporate homicide generally framed as an accident

Question 17

media messages support ___ approach as a resonable solution for crime

Answer 17

crime control

Question 18

what is the shot gun approach. what is is part of?

Answer 18

target largest audience possible

part of media strategies

Question 19

what effect does the use of experts have on media

Answer 19

• confers credibility
• absolves media for what is said by expert
• media contacts specific experts to frame the message

Question 20

how do unrealistic expectations create the vocabulary of force?

Answer 20

• ppl accept there is a war on crime b/w the police and the courts
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Question 21

what are the 3 main characteristics of the media

Answer 21

• driven by profit motive
• provide a socially constructed image
• use questionable sources of authority

Question 22

how does the media exagerate and distort messages?

Answer 22

• use of the plural
• innapropriate use of terminology
• misuse of statistics
• shot gun approach

Question 23

what is an example of “a word becoming symbolic of a status”?

what is an example of “an object symbolizing the word”?

what is an exmaple of “an object coming to symbolize the status”?

Answer 23

• hells angels
• harley davidson
• herley davidson = criminogenic

Question 24

what are the 2 elements of sensationalism?

Answer 24

importance

• violent crimes are news worthy
• focuses on more salascious aspects of violence

provide socially constructive images and messages

• transform raw events into stories
• news constructed for public consumption

Question 25

how does symbolization refer to the development of stereotypes?

Answer 25

• groups lose neutrality; they take on negative connotations even when there is no basis for such
• 3 stage process that begins with the ‘word’ becoming symbolic
  
  • a word becomes symbol of status
  • an object comes to symblize the word
  • the object comes to symbolise the status

Question 26

who do journalists rely on to get information about a crime?

Answer 26

governemt agents and police

Question 27

media bias can be seen in terms of …

Answer 27

• race
• class
• gender

Question 28

what are the problems with the medias use of unrealistic expectations?

Answer 28

• vocabilary of force
• pits society against criminals
• individualistic orientation to crime
  
  • Make individualistic solutions; hides structural factores