Crime and Media
- Created by: brooke34
- Created on: 15-05-19 18:19
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- Crime and the media
- Representations
- distorted view of crime - over-rep of violent + sexual crimes
- victims and criminals are old and MC (age fallacy)
- over-rep police success - higher "clean up rate"
- Exaggerate victimization (fem say patriarchal control) so scared to go out
- overplay extraordinary crimes "dramatic fallacy"
- fiction rep = gangsta rap, glamorise
- fictional sex crimes are psychopathic strangers - not reality
- Walby - **** cases with perpetrator ro be unknown but reality is victim knows
- Tumer - in 60's focus of murder/ petty crimes = rise in crime rates and no death penalty
- Neo-marx say benefits capitalism
- News values
- social construction
- Young and Cohen - news manufactured on "newsworthy"
- Dramatization, simplification, immediacy, higher status, risk, violence
- fear of crime
- creates unrealistic view so heavy users have higher
- Tumber - tabloid readers have high fear of violent crimes
- Fem say female fear is perpetuated
- function - positive as raises our awareness
- helps communicate / social network helps with missing persons / campaigns
- leads to labeling and prejudice (interact)
- creates unrealistic view so heavy users have higher
- Causes crime
- labeling - provides role model
- Imitation - Copy cat violence (bandura) (HSM)
- arousal - view violence - L.Real say stimulates desires
- desensitization - no feelings towards
- transmits knowledge
- Deviance Amplification / Moral panics
- Cyber crimes
- Walls - trespass = viruses / deception = identity theft / **** = minors / violence = stalking or bullying
- policing is hard as limited resources and jurisdiction
- Moral Panics
- weed tax act made illegal but was legal so no creates crime
- exaggerates reaction by society
- Stan cohen - dramatized, predicts more, symbolizes group - deviance amp spiral = marginalization and stigma
- Hall - capitalist agenda "mugging" distracts from errors
- post mod say little impact now as "routine" (McRobbie)
- link to models - HSM and use and grat
- Representations
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