media and crime
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- Created by: Rhianna Hall
- Created on: 12-06-14 10:04
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- media and crime
- media rep of crime
- media gives much attention to crime in news
- gives distored image - differs f/ official stats
- over-rep vio & sexual crimes, portray crims as m/c & older, exag police succ
- distorted image
- Tumber - 60's focus = murder - lessened due to abolish of death sentence 90's focus = drugs
- Walby - increase in reporting for sex crimes - **** now pop in media
- **** portrayed as being psychopathics stranger - distortion - most know ******
- EVAL
- dark fig of crime
- property crime may be lower than vio crime
- news values & crime coverage
- news is a soc const - is filtered
- doesn't exist - is discovered - is the outcome of selection & editing
- Cohen & Young
- news = manufactured - just like all products of Cap
- news values
- dramatisation, unexpectedness, dramatisation
- news values
- EVAL
- crime is discovered then manufactured to make better
- news = manufactured - just like all products of Cap
- news is a soc const - is filtered
- fictional rep of crime
- Mandel - f/ 1945-84 10bill thrillers sold worldwide
- Surette - fictional rep of crime folows 'law of opposites'
- in fiction we find property crime = underrep, real life murders = dom vio not planned
- Surette - fictional rep of crime folows 'law of opposites'
- EVAL
- crimes in fiction don't have to portray 'actual' type of crim
- Mandel - f/ 1945-84 10bill thrillers sold worldwide
- media as cause of crime
- has neg effect on attitudes, v's & beh - esp on young, l/c & poorly ed
- causes: imitation - role models; desensitisation - repeated viewing = numb; portraying pol as incomp
- Marxism - media pumps things into our heads - 'magic bullet theory' - media is powerful agent of socialisation & can prod crime by powerful inf
- bandura - bobo doll study
- lab exp - chi = observed viewing clips of bobo doll treated in diff ways - chil who saw agg = copied
- fear of crime
- makes people unrealistically scared of crime
- Tumber - found link bet tabloid readers & fears of crime (mugging/ phys attack)
- makes people unrealistically scared of crime
- media, relative dep & crime
- Lea & Young
- left realists focus on rel dep
- msny dep comp to others, marginal/poor = dep, the 'good life' = jealous
- left realists focus on rel dep
- Lea & Young
- EVAL
- chi knows diff bet real & not real
- media have to blame something for increasing crime - scapegoat
- moral panics
- folk dev & moral panics
- media is vehicle for re-estab soc order
- media exag soc prob (moral panic)
- id source of prob (folk devil)
- media exag soc prob (moral panic)
- media is vehicle for re-estab soc order
- Cohen
- media sugg prob = spreading, mods/rockers further stigmatised, media reinforced def of subc styles & the dev
- Funct see this as rep to anomie
- Neo-M link mor pans to Cap (Hall)
- media sugg prob = spreading, mods/rockers further stigmatised, media reinforced def of subc styles & the dev
- EVAL
- assumes soc react = over-react - who decides this?
- what turns amplifier on/off?
- in plur soc - harder to decide what is dev & outrageous - no longer universal condemnation
- folk dev & moral panics
- media rep of crime
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