The Media as a Cause of Crime Flashcards

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How is the media a cause of crime?

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Copycat crimes

Desensitisation

Passing on ‘tricks of the trade’

Adverts creating feelings of relative deprivation

Glamourising crime

Creating moral panic

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How does the media create a sense of relative deprivation?

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Through adverts that culturally include everyone including the WC who now want those consumer goods but are economically excluded

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How might the media creating a sense of relative deprivation lead to crimes being committed?

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Those who are economically excluded will commit utilitarian crime to get what they feel they deserve

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What is desensitisation?

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Where constant images of violence and crime result in people distancing themselves from it

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Why might the media causing desensitisation lead to crime?

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People are not affected by crime so they are more likely to carry out crimes themselves

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Who were the mods and rockers?

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Two youth subcultures identified by clothes, transport and music

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How did the media create moral panic associated with the mods and rockers?

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Media exaggerated trouble between the two groups at Clacton during Easter 1964 creating a moral panic

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How did the media creating moral panic associated with the mods and rockers create deviancy amplification?

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More young people becoming mods or rockers

Deviancy amplification - more deviants and more deviance

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