Why does the media give a distorted image of crime?
It over represents violent and sexual crime. It exaggerates police success. It exaggerates the risk of victimisation. It overplays extraordinary crimes
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Why does Felson argue the media gives a distorted view of crime?
The age fallacy: Criminals and victims are portrayed as older and m/c. Dramatic fallacy: It overplays extraordinary crimes
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What do Cohen and Young argue about the social construction of news?
The news is manufactured - some potential stories are accepted while others are rejected
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Outline 4 key news values
Immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher status persons, simplification, novelty and risk/violence
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What is Surette's law of opposites?
Fictional representations are the opposite of the official statistics. Property crime is underrepresented while sex crimes are overrepresented. Fictional sex crimes are committed by psychopathic strangers. Fictional cops usually get their men
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What are the recent trends in fictional representations of crime?
Reality shows tend to feature young, non-white, underclass offenders. There is an increasing tendency to show police as corrupt and brutal. Victims have become less central
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Give three ways the media is a cause of crime
Imitation, arousal, desensitisation, transmitting knowledge of criminal techniques, stimulating desires for affordable goods, glamourising crime
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Give an evaluation point for the media as a cause of crime
Research on media as a cause of crime uses lab experiments. The artificiality of the setting undermines validity
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Why do Schesinger and Tumber argue there is a fear of crime as a result of the media?
Tabloid readers and heavy uses of TV expressed greater fear for going out at night and of becoming a victim
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How does the media cause relative deprivation, according to Lea and Young?
The media presents images of a materialistic good life as a goal everybody should achieve. This stimulates the sense of relative deprivation and social exclusion felt by marginalised groups who cannot afford material goods so turn to crime
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What do Hayward and Young argue about relative deprivation?
Late modernity is a media-saturated society that emphasises consumption and excitement. The media turns crime into a commodity to be consumed and corporations use images of crime to sell products
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How does the media create moral panics?
The media identifies a groups as the 'folk devil' and negatively portrays the group, exaggerating the problem. Moral entrepreneurs call for a crackdown, createing a self-fulfilling prophecy. This leads to a deviant amplification spiral
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How is the moral panic argument criticised?
Left and right realists argue people's fear of crime is often rational
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Outline Cohen's 'Mods and Rockers' study
Many young people identified as belonging to the mods or the rockers. The initial confrontations in 1964 were minor. The media exaggerated the seriousness, distorting the picture. It predicted further conflict, negatively labelled the groups.
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What is the deviance amplification spiral?
The media makes it appear a problem is getting out of hand. This leads to calls for an increased control response and further stigmitisation of a group so individuals adopt these identities
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Why are moral panics a result of a boundary crisis?
There is uncertainty about where the boundary lies between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in a time of change
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What is the Functionalist perspective of moral panics?
Moral panics are ways of responding to the sense of anomie created by change. The media raise the collective consciousness and reassert social controls where central values are threatened
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What is Thomas and Loader's definition of cyber crime?
Computer-mediated activities that are illegal
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Why is policing cyber crime difficult?
The scale of the internet and its globalised nature poses problems of jurisdiction
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Why does Felson argue the media gives a distorted view of crime?
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The age fallacy: Criminals and victims are portrayed as older and m/c. Dramatic fallacy: It overplays extraordinary crimes
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What do Cohen and Young argue about the social construction of news?
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