The Media And Crime Flashcards
What’s the Marxist perspective on the media’s relationship with society’s crime?
That the media stiffiles collective action against capitalism by using ‘moral entrepreneurs’ to turn people towards distractions about the rise/fall in crime.
What’s the feminist perspective on the media and crime?
That the media we consume is responsible for gendered crimes and peoples reactions to having crimes committed against them.
Pornography might subliminally glorify sexual violence.
Movies might perpetuate the standard of dominating women and all other men as a merit of positive masculinity, leading to domestic abuse and manipulation.
It presents male sexual assault experience as a joke.
What did Mandel estimate?
10 billion crime thrillers of some variety were sold worldwide by the year of 1945-1984
What years did M_______ estimate that __ Billion crime thriller media of some kind sold?
1945 - 1984.
10 Billion
The Comodifacation of crime theory.
By who?
Means what?
Young.
Crime is packaged as an aesthetic to be sold and be linked to fashions. This may explain why young delinquents might gravitate towards criminal lifestyle aesthetics.
In 2003, J_______ posited thoughts on…
The Internet.
It has revolutionised access to crime, a breaking down of the (in Postman’s words) information hierarchy.
It has opened more avenues for crime.
What is the
‘Fergerson effect’?
If the police think they’ll receive bad press for having to exercise force, they’ll just do less street policing, avoiding it when they can for fears of bad media coverage.
The theory of crime sensationalisation, who posited it?
Hewitt and Osborne
Cultivation theory is what?
The theory that there’s a developed
‘Mean world syndrome’
A positive correlation has been found between the consumption of media and the belief that society is increasingly unsafe.
What do Left Realists say on crime and the media?
Lea and Young: Mass media reinforces the psychological violence of pointing out viewers own ‘relative deprivation’.
They’re told status is achieved through flaunting wealth, crime is the desperate expression of this want.
How might the lack of men coming forward about sexual assault be rationalised by blaming the media?
The media (in cases for instances of sitcoms and movies) often portray the sexual assault of men as a joke or as something light hearted and not to be thought twice about.
