Media effects on crime
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- Created on: 03-04-18 13:00
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- Media Coverage effect crime rate
- Jewkes
- Many believe that the media images are responsible for eroding moral standards, and corrupting young minds
- The relationship between media and audiences is referred to as the hypodermic syringe model
- this is because the media is seen to inject values and ideas into the receiver which have negative thoughts and actions
- Bandura
- Bobo Doll Experiment
- He conducted a study on children aged 3-6
- He looked at he learning of aggressive styles of behaviour through modelling
- he got the children to watch a film of an adult performing aggressive acts to a Bobo doll
- Hitting
- Flung it in the air
- Kicking
- Threw it down and punched it
- He then later explored how much of this aggressive the children had learnt by watching
- he got the children to watch a film of an adult performing aggressive acts to a Bobo doll
- Findings
- The children who watched the aggressive model replicated and copied the behaviours that he observed
- Criticism
- Cumberbatch
- Children who had not played with the doll before were 5x more likely to copy aggressive behaviour than this familiar with it
- With snapshot studies, we cannot discover if the single exposer of aggressive behaviour can have a long term effect
- Cumberbatch
- Bobo Doll Experiment
- Jewkes
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