become a consumer spectacle, showing up in tv (like sherlock, happy valley), non fiction (true crime docs, podcasts) film (the shawshank redemption) and fiction (gone girl)
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How is crime part of infotainment?
It entertains, thrilling. and informs- true crime.
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How is crime intergrated with modern day youth culture?
Music- rap talks about violence. video games-gta
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The media can't report on every single crime so what does it do?
It's selective through agenda setting- telling people what to think about, like the black mugger moral panic. and gatekeeps certain stories such as white collar crime- dwp estimates 120 bill a year is from tax evasion and fraud whereas only 1.2 billion is
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why do Marxists say the media agenda sets around immigrants and BAME people?
To create a distraction, shift the blame and anger of the working class on another group, avoid blame being attributed to the government. Neo marxist- stuart hall.
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why do marxists say that the media agenda sets to avoid publishing stories that expose white collar crime?
Althusser says the superstructure protects the infrastructure.
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However is this still particularly applicable in the digital age?
No user generated content allows for the underdog to have a voice. cultural movements paired with improvements in technology have also given women a voice to speak out on sexual crimes. Think #metoo movement.
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What are news values?
Values that are held by journalists and editors on what makes a newsworthy story.
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how do news values shape reporting crime?
Jewkes. news values- elit persons n nations (boris johnson state crime lockdown parties) more interesting. Unexpectedness- like the recent stabbing of four children in the Annecy park attack. threshold-dramatic impact-911. this influences which stories ar
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what news values did party gate illustrate?
Threshold- big shock. elite persons- prime minister. proximity-happened in the UK. spectacle-caught on camera.
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how does the media affect our perception of crime?
CSEW 2016 found people thought crime rates had risen due to sources such as tv/radio almost 70% people thought crime rose nationally, informing their opinions. Surette (2010) calls this the backwards law. We have an exaggerated perception of crime due to
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How many people were found guilty of sex offences in 2002?
5,000. this is low however feminists would argue that this is because many women don't come forward about sex offences because they believe that they will not be listened to by police. Casey report found institutional sexism in police force in 2023, women
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media exaggerating abductions
total amount of child abductions from 2021-2022 were 1,036 usually parents abducting children after loss of custody etc. however moral panic created from fiction like film 'taken' and headlines that urge parents to protect their children.
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Postmodernist view on media and crime.
Baudrillard believe the media is actively creating reality through hyperreality like over-sensationalised true crime docs, they exaggerated and distorted and through the crime fiction produced. This demonstrated the backwards law.
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how do left realists view media with crime?
It ignores working class on working class crime. knife crime is hardly reported because it doesn't fit news values such as unexpectedness and threshold or elite persons. its ignored on national news.
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Beck and risk society
we live in an age on uncertainty so we become desensitized to the constant moral panics that bombard us in the media.
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Steve hall view on media and crime? (2012) NOT STUART HALL!
there IS an over-exaggeration in crime media however media pushes the narrative that crimes get solved most of the time but this isn't true. Even out of the crimes reported to police, the PRCS data shows only 27% crimes solved. CSEW says out of all crimes
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Actual crime rates over the last two years.
Crime rates have actually decreased by 10% from 2020-2022.
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