Media/victimology Flashcards
Who came up with the ideal victim?
Christie (1986)
What were Greer’s (2005) 2 ideas?
hierarchy of victimisation
Victims usually white males
Which 2 media cases did Greer (2007) compare?
Patrick Warren and David Spencer case (1996)
Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells (2002)
Jewkes (2014)?
- breaks moral codes of society,
- stories need to be: simple, have pictures, have twists, have an ideal victim
Greer and McLaughlin (2010)?
politics of outrage
Larsen and Dejgaard (2013)?
- Myth of benefits cheating
- Comparative study with UK, Denmark and Sweden
- Scroungerphobia
- Lone parents targeted - black single mothers
Gilchrist (2010)
- hyper-visibility of white women
- Study of disappearances of native Canadian women
What is victim precipitation?
victim blaming approach
Assumes victim is somewhat responsible
Rape cases and short skirts
Lloyd and Ramon (2016)
- Examined domestic violence against women in the UK
- Journalists sexualise violence against women
- Framing is not objective
- Justifies and reinforces domestic violence
- Domestic violence against men not recognised
- victim blaming approaches of the media
Reiner (2003) said what about crime stories
crime stories have doubled between 1940’s-1990’s in the media
Benedict (1992) said that media portrays female victims as
Virgins or whores
Jewkes (2015) siad what about news values for stories?
Threshold Predictability Simplification Sex Celebrity Violence Children Visual images…
What did Janky et al (2014) suggest about the portrayal of welfare recipients?
What examples can be used?
Most desperate neighbourhoods are chosen by the media, especially in Liberal welfare regimes (UK)
The media search for the most vulnerable or distressed
Example: channel 5 documentaries
What did Wincup (2016) say about the narratives on dependent drug users and scroungers?
- Drug users seen as undeserving, but are ignored in policy
- Suggested to be involved in crime
- Stigma (Goffman)
- Media highlights autonomy of all these people as if they choose to scrounge and use drugs
What did Dunn et al (2017) find
The stigma attached to a criminal conviction affects the ability to find housing, secure employment,
and establish social ties.
paroled drug and sex offenders housed in poor and unsafe housing conditions compared
with less stigmatised such as homeless families with children.
In budget hotel (after disaster), people thought that the ex-cons should be put far away, families put in motel
How many more times were poor people shown by English compared to Swedish papers according to Larsen?
2.5x
Barnes &Hope (2017) [UK] said what on political participation?
Low income adults/recipients of means tested benefits less are politically active (economic disenfranchisement) than higher income people
- Children are less likely to be politically engaged
- Unequal participation
- Put into a cycle of bad employment satisfaction
- Disenfranchisement is socialised
Watson (2015) [UK] suggested what about welfare and political participation?
- A shift to work-based welfare benefits foremost in liberal countries not just there
- Conditional welfare = intrusion, control
- shapes beliefs about the state and government and influences political participation
- Result of welfare state is negative (needs group differentiation i.e. disabled finding this helpful)
Shildrick (2013)
- Stigmatised more unlikely to raise their voice, instead social distance created
- True “undeserving victims of crime” – the poor, unmarried mothers, young black men
who supports Universalism instead of means tested benefits?
Dunn et al (2017)
What does Applebaum (2001) suggest?
USA study
undeserving/underclass in public perception: single-mothers/able bodied men
Deserving poor: widows, disabled, non-white
Able-bodied men are least deserving
Discourse stereotypes undeserving poor
Larsen (2013)’s 5 criteria on public support are? (not dependent on country)
What does it (misspell)?
Control - how well are they in control of lives Reciprocity - those who contribute Attitude - most docile and compliant Identity - which group? Need - greatest need
CRAIN
Who can Watson with the UK 2015 study be related to and why?
Hyman’s (1967) American study on working class:
fatalism, gratification
Comparison with welfare recipients and political participation
Marshall (1996)
-Restorative justice: care to the victim and addressing pro-social motives, giving victims a voice
Standing (2015)
underclass/scroungers are precariat
Bourdieu (1997)
symbolic domination
