Crime and Deviance: Topic 7: Crime and the media
- Created by: Deborah Mercy
- Created on: 10-06-13 11:53
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- Crime and the media
- Ditton and duffy - sexual crime is pver represented by media
- Portray criminals and victims as older and more middle class
- Media coveraage exaggeratess police success
- Media exaggerate risk of victimisation
- Crime is reported as a series of serveral events
- Media oer play extra ordinary crimes
- Cohen and Young - immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher-status, simplification, novelty/ unexpectedness, risk and violence
- Fictional representations of crime - tv, cinema, etc.
- Include what is not shown by fictional representations of crime
- The media as a cause of crime
- Imitation
- Arousal
- Desensitation - repeating violent shows
- Knowledge of how to do the crime
- As a traget of crime
- Advertisements to stimulate desires for affordable goods
- Portray police as impotent - london riots
- Glamourising offences
- Fear of crime
- Media exaggeration - woolich murder - video
- Media create fear of unrealistic crimes
- News papers work with media to ensure people feel fear e.g. black muggers and immigrants
- Media relative deprivation and crime
- Society is media saturated and in the US the American dream says it is meritcratic - but really materialistic and do not care for the w/c
- Make crime seem like the lifestyle of violence is for a better life
- Portrays the criminal as the one who needs help, simpathetically
- Moral panics
- Folk devils - Mods and rockers
- Exaggeration and distortion
- Moral entreprenuers - Meow meow pills
- Prediction - assume what has and will happen
- Media link cloting to crime
- Symbolisation - they use a certain look/object to like a person to a previous event - Cohen, it is crucial in media
- The wider context
- Moral panics happen at a time where there is social change
- When new have nothing they create falsee information to build fear
- Functionalists - see it as a response to anomie
- The idea of black muggers was made to take attention away from the failing economy
- Criticisms to Moral Panics
- Moral pamics are not used to protect but to amplify crime
- To demonise a particular group
- McRobbie and Thornton - moral panics are eroutine and have less impact
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- Ditton and duffy - sexual crime is pver represented by media
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