The media Flashcards

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The media and crime COHEN

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Mods and Rockers
- identified as folk devils
- created moral panic as media exaggerated conflict
- led to deviance amplification

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The media and crime HALL

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Black ‘muggers’
- distract from the crisis of capitalism
- repressive policing
- dividing the WC on racial grounds

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What does research show about the medias representations of crime?

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Between 30-70% of the new media is devoted to various forms of crime and deviance. However, this is often distorted.

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What are the 6 distorted representations of crime from the media?

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1- overrepresent violent and sexual crimes (only makes up 3% of actual crime)
2- Portrays criminals as older
(Felson- age fallacy)
3- Coverage exaggerates police success
4- Exaggerate chances of victimisation
5- Crimes reported as a series of separate events rather than looking at underlying causes
6- Overplay unusual crime (F- dramatic fallacy) criminals who solve it are seen as clever and daring (F- ingenuity fallacy)

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Why has the media changed its crime focus since the 1960s?

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Shifted from murder and petty crime to drugs, child abuse, terrorism etc
- rising crime rate meant crime had to be ‘special’ to attract coverage

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How does coverage of rape distort the true nature of this crime?

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Most cases the perpetrator is known to the victim, exception rather than a rule
X Feminists argue this does not look for the underlying causes such as the patriarchy or misogyny
X not usually a psychopathic stranger

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What are news values?

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The criteria by which journalists and editors decide whether a story is newsworthy enough to make it into the news
(they are gatekeepers)

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What are the 8 news values?

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1- Immediacy (breaking news)
2- Dramatisation (exciting)
3- Personal interests (individuals)
4- Higher status (celebrities)
5- Simplification (good n evil)
6- Novelty (unusual)
7- Risk (creates fear/moral panic)
8- Violence

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What are fictional crimes according to Surette?

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Claims that fictional crimes follow a ‘law of opposites’

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What are 5 trends in fictional crimes?

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1- Property crime is underrepresented
2- Real life homicides are from brawls and disputes rather than because if calculated greed
3- Fictional sex crimes are committed by psychopathic strangers, rather than acquaintances
4- Fictional villains are MC, higher status, white males
5- Fictional law enforcement usually get the criminal

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What are the 7 points to media as a cause for crime?

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1- Desensitisation
2- Imitation/copycat
3- Knowledge
4- Arousal/glamourising crime
5- Capitalist values
6- Cybercrime
7- Fear of crime

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Desensitisation

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Violent images no longer scare people because they have been exposed to them al their life
- images have to become even more violent to scare their audiences
- normalised, people see it as common and do it themselves

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Evaluation of Desensitisation

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X Functionalist say this deters criminals and is good for boundary maintenance
X Hypodermic syringe is not true
- don’t all passively take on crime and commit

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Imitatoioin/copycat crime

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‘Video nasties’- commit crime due to exposure on TV and video games
- influence view on reality

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Evaluation of Imitation/copycat crime

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X Violence on Tv and video games has very little impact on deviance from the viewer
X other factors (psychological, MH)
X can distinguish between reality and fiction

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Knowledge

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Some police officers believe that crime shows like ‘Law and Order’ have made criminals more aware of the need to eliminate forensic evidence

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Evaluation of Knowledge

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X deterrent, easily caught

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Arousal/ glamourising crime

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Fenwick and Hayward
- crime is packaged and marketed to young people as a romantic, exciting, cool and fashionable cultural symbol
‘heroine chique’

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Evaluation of Arousal/glamourising crime

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X distinguish between reality and fiction
X treat people as puppets

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Capitalist values

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Encourages greed
‘Wolf of Wall Street’
- on the side of the criminal, wealth from crime is good

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Evaluation of capitalist values

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X reject ideology
X won’t have opportunity

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Cybercrime

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Jewkes- categories
- cyber trespassing, hacking
- cyber deception, theft
- cyber violence, stalking, bullying
- global cybercrime

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Evaluation of Cybercrime

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X catch criminals use technology as forces against them

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Fear of crime

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Schlesinger and Tumber
- the more TV people watch the higher their fear of becoming a victim of crime
- concept of risk
- more fearful, more crime

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Evaluation of Fear crime
X correlation distorted X cause and effect
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Functionalist link to media
Value consensus and boundary maintenance
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Marxism link to media
RC control media, WCC not covered - media fuels greed through advertisements
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Left realist link to media
Exposure, relative deprivation
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Subcultural link to media
Media is defining the subcultural identities
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Postmodernist link to media
Risk society, media creating fear