The Media as a cause of crime
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- Created on: 03-04-18 13:16
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- The Media as a cause of crime
- There has been concern that the media can have a negative effect on attitudes, values and behaviour
- There are many way in which the media can be argued to cause crime
- It can encourage criminal behaviour,
- increase fear of crime
- lead to labelling of groups/ moral panics
- Encouraging criminal behaviour
- Ways the media have been accused of encouraging criminal behaviour
- Imitation
- James Bulger's killers watched a video and copied it by murdering the boy
- Arousal
- Any sexual videos or movies can encourage sex crimes
- Transmitting knowledge of criminal techniques
- The social networking scene transmits knowledge on hacking which is an offence
- Stimulating desires for unaffordable goods
- London roots show that a way of getting desirable goos is to steal
- Portraying the police as incompetent
- With the Simpons it shows the police as not good at their making criminals think they can get away with it
- Glamourising offending
- Grand Theft auto makes offending look cool and glamours
- Imitation
- Bobo Doll Experiment
- This case study helps to explain how what people watch and observe influences and encourages their behaviour
- Criticism
- Greer and Reiner
- Lets not pretend that we don't understand what crime means on T.V
- We are smart enough to know that it is entertainment
- Lets not pretend that we don't understand what crime means on T.V
- Greer and Reiner
- Ways the media have been accused of encouraging criminal behaviour
- Increasing Fear of Crime
- The media exaggerates the amount of violent and unusual crime
- They also exaggerate the risks of certain groups of people becoming its victim, creating an unrealism fear of crime
- Gerber et al
- Heavy users of television (over 4hrs a day) had higher levels of fear of crime
- Schlesinger and Tumber
- Found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime
- Tabloid readers and heavy t.v users expressive greater fear with becoming a victim especially physical attack
- Found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime
- Statistics
- Crime is committed in England and Wales every 5 seconds
- Police spend nearly 22,000 hour processing arrests
- Police arrested 4 people a minute in england and wales
- more then 1/3 of over 50s are too afraid to leave their homes because of becoming a victim
- 47% of over 75s were to afraid to go out after dark
- 61% requested more police to be on the street as well as better lights, CCTV and safer transport
- Older people are effectively becoming prisoners in their own home
- Crime is committed in England and Wales every 5 seconds
- The media exaggerates the amount of violent and unusual crime
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