Sociologists: Media

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Kidd-Hewitt et al
reporting crime as increasingly driven by the need for a spectacle
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Postman
coverage is a mixture of entertainment and sensationalism- 'infotainment'
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Surette
media shows opposite of official statistics- law of opposites
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Ditton et al
only 3% is violent crime
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Felson
victims portrayed as older- age fallacy
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Felson 2
overplay extraordinary crimes- dramatic fallacy
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Cohen and Young
news is not discovered but manufactured
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left realists
relative deprivation
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cultural criminologists
crime as a commodity- crime as a brand
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Cohen
mods and rockers
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McRobbie and Thornton
frequency, context, reflexivity, difficulty, rebound
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Jewkes
'conventional crimes' and 'new crimes using new tools'
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Wall
cyber trespass, cyber theft, cyber ***********, cyber violence
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Jewkes
ICT permits routine surveillance
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coverage is a mixture of entertainment and sensationalism- 'infotainment'

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Postman

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media shows opposite of official statistics- law of opposites

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only 3% is violent crime

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victims portrayed as older- age fallacy

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