Crime and the Media

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News is not discovered but manufactured.
Cohen and Young
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1945-84: over 10 million crime thrillers were sold worldwide, whilst 25% of prime time TV and 20% of films are crime shows or movies.
Mandel
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Heavy users of TV (over four hours a day) had higher levels of fear of crime.
Gerbner et al
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Found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime, tabloid readers and heavy users of TV expressed greater fear of becoming a victim, especially of physical attack
Schlesinger and Tumber
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'Media effects' research ignores the meanings that viewers give to media violence e.g. they may give different meanings to violence in cartoons, horror films and news bulletins.
Sparks
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Examined media response to mods and rockers - media produce inventory of what happened that contains 3 elements, exaggeration and distortion, prediction and symbolisation. Medias portrayal produced deviance amplification spiral.
Cohen
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Moral panics are now routine and have less impact. In late modern society there is little consensus about what is deviant.
McRobbie and Thornton
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Idenitifed four types of cyber crime - Cyber trespass, cyber deception and theft, cyber *********** and cyber violence.
Wall
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'Media effects' research ignores the meanings that viewers give to media violence e.g. they may give different meanings to violence in cartoons, horror films and news bulletins.

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