Media and crime
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- Created on: 10-06-22 13:29
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- Media and crime
- How media distorts crime
- Exaggerating the risks of victimisation for certain groups
- Exaggerating the success of the police, presenting them positively
- Reporting crimes as separate incidents, not taking into account links or structural causes for the crimes
- Portrayal of victims as middle class and older
- Overplaying of extraordinary crime and downplaying of regular crimes
- Over-representation of violent and sexual crimes
- How media can cause crime
- Theft of media devices like TVs and laptops
- Learning of criminal techniques via the dark web etc
- Increased advertising and consumerist culture increases desire for unaffordable goods
- Desensitisation - by seeing graphic media over and over, it becomes less graphic and its effect lessens
- Portrayal of the police in a negative way
- Arousal - enjoying consuming violent or sexual imagery
- Glamorisationof offending
- imitation - copying deviant role models
- How the media causes fear of crime
- Exaggerating levels of violent and sexual crime
- Exaggerating the risks of victimhood
- Gerbner found that people who consumed television heavily had a higher fear of crime
- Schlesinger and Tumber found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime
- Creates a fear of crime and relative deprivation through advertising ‘good life’
- Media, moral panics and deviancy amplification
- Moral panic - an over the top reaction in society to a threat
- Deviancy amplification - when an attempt to control deviance leads to an increase in it
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- Cohen and moral panics
- The mods and rockers were made folk devils of and their ‘crimes’ were exaggerated.
- Moral panics are a response to social change and reflect societal anxiety
- Moral panics according to functionalist
- Moral panics are a response to anomie caused by change
- Moral panics according to neo-Marxists
- A distraction from structural inequality
- How media distorts crime
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