Crime and the Media
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- Created on: 07-06-13 09:21
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- Crime and the Media
- Media Representations of Crime
- The media Over represent crime:Williams and Dickson- newspapers devote 30%
- The media gives a distorted image of crime
- Over-represents violent and sexual crimes
- Portray victims ans criminals as older and more middle-class (Felson-'Age Fallacy')
- exaggerate police success
- Exaggerate the risk of victimisation
- overplay extraordinary crimes
- News Values- news is socially constructed
- Immediacy
- Dramatisaion
- Personalisation
- High status person
- Simplification
- Novelty
- Violence
- Fictional Representation of Crime
- Mandel- 25% of TV and 20% of films are crime and are important sources of our knowledge
- Surette- 'Law of opposites'
- Property crime is under-represented while violence, drug and sex crimes are over-represented
- Fictional sex crimes are committed by psychopathic strangers, not aquaintances
- The Media as a Cause of Crime
- The Media, Relative Deprivation and Crime
- Lea and Young- The media increases relative deprivation
- Even the poorest have access to media
- Resort to crime to obtain consumer goods
- Lea and Young- The media increases relative deprivation
- Fear Of Crime
- The media exaggerate the risks to certain groups e,g, women and the elderly
- Schleinger and Tumber found Tabloid readers and heavy TV watchers expressed a fear of going out at night
- The media influences people through 'video nasties', rap lyrics and computer games encouraging violence and criminality
- Imitation Arousal Desensitisation Transmitting knowldge Stimulating desires and Glamourisingcrime
- The Media, Relative Deprivation and Crime
- Moral Panics
- An exaggerated and irrational over-reaction by society to a perceived problem, where the reaction enlarges the problem out of all proportion to its real seriousness
- The Media identify a group as folk devils
- moral entrepreneurs call for a 'crackdown'
- Leads to the SFP and Deviance AmplificationSpiral
- moral entrepreneurs call for a 'crackdown'
- The Media identify a group as folk devils
- Mods and Rockers
- Cohen
- At the early stages many people did not consider themselves as belonging to a group. A minor incident in Clacton
- The Media exaggerated, predicted more and negatively labelled the symbols of mods and rockers
- Lead to police crackdown
- Led to the SFP
- Lead to police crackdown
- The Media exaggerated, predicted more and negatively labelled the symbols of mods and rockers
- At the early stages many people did not consider themselves as belonging to a group. A minor incident in Clacton
- Cohen
- Criticisms of Moral panics
- Marxists- they are designed to distract the attention from the crisis of capitalism and divide the W/C
- How do we know it is a over-reaction?
- McRobbie- The are now routine so have less impact
- An exaggerated and irrational over-reaction by society to a perceived problem, where the reaction enlarges the problem out of all proportion to its real seriousness
- Media Representations of Crime
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