Topic 7: Crime and the Media
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- Created on: 19-06-17 08:46
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- Topic 7: Crime and the Media
- Media representations of crime
- Media distortion
- Media over-represents violent and sexual crime
- Media potrays victims as older and middle-class
- Media exaggerates police success
- Media exagertes risk of victimisation
- Crime reported as series of seperate events
- Media overplays extrodinary crime
- Walby: sex crimes over-dramatisised - purpotrator is usually known
- News values and crime coverage
- Young is manufactured through criteria : Immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher-status, simplification, novelty/unexpectedness, risk and violence
- Fictional representations of crime
- Surette - the 'law of opposites': drug/sex crimes overrepresented, homicides a result of greed and calculation, flctional sex crimes committed by pychotic strangers, and excessive police successes
- Better recent trends: non-white working-class offenders, ploice corruption and centeral focus on victims
- Media distortion
- The media as a cause of crime
- Forms of crime enticement through media
- Imitation (copycat role models), arousal, desensitisation, criminal technqiues, target, advertising/relative deprivation, potrayal of police imcompetence + glamorisation of offending
- Fear of crime
- Tumber: correlation between fear of crimes and tabloid media consumption
- Te media, relative deprivation and crime
- Lea and Young: even poorest groups have media access - exposure to materialism + blocked oppotunity structures (Merton) causes strain
- Cultural criminology, the media and crime
- Young: media turns crime into a commodity - blurring of coundries between media crime and real crime
- Ex: police car cameras alter how police works for TV show 'Cops'
- The commodification of crime
- Advertisers use media images of crime to sell products in youth market - e.g. gangster aesthetic
- Heyward: crime is packaged and marketed to young people as romantic, exciting, cool and fashionable' -e.g. fashion brands using images of the forbiden (e.g. 'poison' or 'opium').
- Forms of crime enticement through media
- Moral panics
- Mods and rockers
- Cohen: folk devils and moral panics: exaggeration/distortion, prediction, and symbolisation
- Deviance amplification spiral
- Media coverage calls for ore policing, which amplies marginalisation and thus more crime
- The wider context
- Cohen: moral panics occur at times of social change (e.g. mods and rockers taking place in new-found hedonistic 1950's Britain - boundary crisis (e.g. black mugging epedemic
- Cyber-crime
- Moral panic over morality of horror comics, cinema, television, and video computer games in the past
- Wall: cyper-trespass, cyber-deception/theft, cyber-pornograhy, cyber-violence, and global cyber-crime
- Mods and rockers
- Media representations of crime
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