Crime and Deviance in the Media (unfinished)
- Created by: melissaclare
- Created on: 27-10-18 09:06
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- Crime and Deviance
- Marxism
- Rich or powerful
- The reporting of crime is used by the rich and powerful as a way of maintaining control over powerless groups.
- Working class
- They highlight the way the media portrays criminals as working class.
- White collar and corporate crime
- The media ignores both white collar and corporate crime.
- State apparatus
- ideological state apparatus is : where a social instituion can control our ideology(our ideas and beliefs) e.g religion, media, education.
- Rich or powerful
- Functionalism
- Window to the world
- Functionalists argue that the media reflects crime as it is. It gives a true picture of crime.
- Critics argue that this is rather naive given the fact that the real figure of crime is way above the official figure.
- Official statistics
- Critics argue that this is rather naive given the fact that the real figure of crime is way above the official figure.
- Functionalists argue that the media reflects crime as it is. It gives a true picture of crime.
- Dark figure
- Official statistics
- Anomie
- Durkheim developed this as a term to explain why some turned to crime. Anomie means being insufficiently integrated into society's norms and values.
- Window to the world
- Postmodernism
- Consumerism
- Spectacle
- Infotainment
- Perception
- Mass media plays a significant role in constructing people's reality.
- Sensationalism
- Feminism
- Women as victims
- Feminists argue that the media plays down the extent of women as victims of crime.
- Lads mags
- Feminists argue that the sexually explicit representation in all forms of *********** renders all women potentially unsafe since they encourage predatory attitudes amongst men.
- Sexual crimes
- They are highly critical of reporting of sex crimes against women as a way to provide entertainment.
- Patriarchal control
- Crime reporting reinforces the stereotyping and oppression of women.
- Ethnicity
- Feminists- media plays down role of women as victims unless they are white/ pretty (white woman syndrome) - media emphasizes black criminality buy plays down how African Caribbeans and south asians twice as likely to be victims of crime than white
- Women as victims
- Interactionism
- Social construction
- Interactionists recognise that crime and deviance are socially constructed by agents of social control.
- Labelling
- Amplification
- Interactionists argue mass media provide a form of database for imitation so public is more likely to learn about them
- The media has a role in amplifying the extent of deviance through the way it reports crime.
- Moral panics
- Exaggerated over-reactions by society to a perceived problem (label) - usually inspired/driven by the media - where the reaction increases the problem out of all proportions to its real seriousness.
- News values
- Social construction
- Marxism
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