the media and crime - done

Question 1

media representations of crime

Answer 1

exaggerates police success, risk of victimization
overrepresents sexual and violent crimes
portrays victims as older and more middle class

Question 2

news values and crime coverage

Answer 2

stan cohen - news is not discovered but manufactured as some is selected whilst other stories are rejected . news values refers to what the media requires to create a story - immediacy (breaking news), higher status people, dramatisation, if it has risk and violence

Question 3

fictional representation of crime

Answer 3

big media coverage of crime, 1945-84 10billion crime thrillers sold world wide - venables case is an example - 2 boys kidnapped, tortured an murder a todler

Question 4

the media as a cause of crime

Answer 4

glamourises offending, shows police as incompetent, creates copycat behaviour through deviant role models, transmitting criminal technique knowledge

Question 5

fear of crime

Answer 5

the media is distorting an unrealistic fear of crime, gebner et al found that media usage and fear of crime are linked - heavy users of television had a higher fear of crime - criticized as people have different responses to violence and deviance from the media

Question 6

the media, relative deprivation and crime

Answer 6

lea and young - all groups have access to the media which promoted crime to have benefits such as materialistic goods, leisure and fun, consequently. due to metons idea of pressure to conform to norms of society people turn to crime to achieve it.

Question 7

cultural criminology, the media and crime

Answer 7

cultural criminology argues media makes crime seem desirable, they encourage crime
young and hayward say in todays world we can no longer distinguish between images and reality of crime via media - police car chases are an example of the media staging crime

Question 8

moral panic

Answer 8

media is used to put pressure for laws to be put on deviant behaviour - moral panic is the result of labelling bad acts - marijuana tax act USA. happens because groups labelled folk devil or threat to societies values, media presents them as bad, groups are condemed

Question 9

mods and rockers

Answer 9

cohens book folk devils and moral panics - medias response to moral panic between 2 groups of w/c teenagers -1964-66 English seaside resort - it was originally minor but the media exaggerated and encouraged it. the symbols of the groups were labelled as negative + associated with deviance

Question 10

deviance amplification spiral

Answer 10

cohen - amplification spiral - crime is seemingly getting worse and out of hand - increased response of police and courts
mods and rockers - people felt the need to choose between the two groups

Question 11

criticisms of the idea of moral panic

Answer 11

it assumes that the societal reaction is a disproportionate overreaction
why are the media able to amplify some problems into a panic but not others
McRobbie and Thorton - late modernity - moral panic has less impact and are now routine