Evaluate different representations of crime in the media
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- Created on: 26-03-18 11:49
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- Evaluate different representations of crime in the media (30 marks).
- => Distorted image of crime
- Over-represent violent + sexual crime
- e.g. DITTON + DUFFY (1983)= 46% of media reports but ONLY 3% recorded by police.
- Criminals= MORE older + m/c than in C.J.S. e.g. FELSON (1998) => Age fallacy
- Exaggerate police success (=MAJOR source of crime) + over-represent violent crime = HIGHER clear up rate than property crime.
- Exaggerates risk of victimisation
- Reported as series of separate events without any structure + underlying cause.
- e.g. FELSON=> 'Dramatic Fallacy' = overplay extraordinary crimes + underplay ordinary crimes.
- Over-represent violent + sexual crime
- e.g. Shelesinger + Tumber => 1960's= focus on murders + petty crime
- Abolition of death penalty
- => 1990's = More coverage on drugs, child abuse, terrorism, football hooliganism + mugging.
- Abolition of death penalty
- New Values + crime coverage
- e.g. COHEN + YOUNG
- News= socially constructed (NOT discovered
- If crime told in terms of criteria (news values) = better chance of making the news.
- => Deviance= abnormal behaviour= newsworthy
- e.g. COHEN + YOUNG
- Fictional
- e.g. SURETTE (1998)=> 'Law of opposites' = X official stats + same as news coverage e.g. crime shows
- e.g. property crime under-represented
- e.g. Real= homicides => brawls + domestic disputes , Fiction= greed+ calculation
- Fiction= sex crimes committed by psychopathic strangers (+m/c males) NOT acquaintances (like in real-life).
- Fiction=cops get their person, NOT so true in reality.
- CRITICISM
- New trends=> -More police shown to be corrupt + brutal + less successful. -Victims MORE central + audience able to relate to their suffering. -MORE young, non-white 'underclass' offenders
- => Distorted image of crime
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