crime and deviance
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- crime and deviance
- distortion and exaggeration of crime
- GREER (2005) found that all media tend to exxaggerate the extent of violent crime.
- order to generate audience interest and attract readers and viewers
- false misleading impression of the real extent of crimes.
- white collar crime: offences commited by middle class individuals who abuse their work positions for personal gain at the expense of the organisation.
- corporate crime: offences commited by groups or individuals on behalf of large companies which directly prfit the company rather than the individual
- scape -goats and steyeotypes certain groups
- GREER (2005) found that all media tend to exxaggerate the extent of violent crime.
- deviancy amplification and moral panics
- moral panic: a wave of public concern about some exaggerated or imaginary threat to society, sensationalised in the mass media
- the deviants themselves may become labelled as 'folk devils'
- deviancy amplification: the way the media may actually make worse or create the very deviance they condemn by their exaggerated and distorted reporting of events.
- MCROBBIE AND THORNTON (1995) suggest the concept of moral panic is now outdated and is no longer a useful concept in the modern world
- this is because new technology, media companies have changed the the reporting of and reaction to events that might once have caused a moral panic.
- moral panic: a wave of public concern about some exaggerated or imaginary threat to society, sensationalised in the mass media
- distortion and exaggeration of crime
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