Ditton and Duffy - 46% of reports of violent and sexual crimes only made up 3% of all crime recorded
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Focus on crime
Schlesigner and Tumber - 1960s focus had been on murders and petty crime, by the 1990s it was of less interest
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Social construction
Cohen and Young - stories are selceted and rejected. News is manafactures and always involves risk and dramatisation.
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Fictional representations
Surette - Porperty crime is underrated, real life homicides are a result from brawls and always show typical offenders.
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Fear of crime
Gerbner - they exaggerate the risks of certain groups of people becoming its victims and heavy users of crime TV have more fear of it.
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Cultural criminology
Hayward and Young - media create crime shows that are deisred and ever expanding of fluid digital pictures blurring reality.
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Relative deprivation
Lea and Young - mass media increases it by making marginalised groups feel excluded and from so much pressure to conform they deviant in order to achieve goals.
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What is moral panic
An instance of public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem regarded as threatening the moral standards of society.
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Mods and Rockers
Cohen - mods wore smart dress and rockers wore leather jackets: although their dispute was minor the media over reacted
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Cyber crime
Wall - cyber; trespass, deception and theft, violence and ***********
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Focus on crime
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Schlesigner and Tumber - 1960s focus had been on murders and petty crime, by the 1990s it was of less interest
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