media

Question 1

what are 3 types of media?

Answer 1

broadcast
press
digital

Question 2

what are 3 ways media of crime is distorted?

what does distorted media show?

Answer 2

1. media overplays extraordinary crimes and underplays ordinary crimes. Felson refers to this as dramatic fallacy
2. overrepresent violent and sexual crimes. soothill and wallaby found that newspapers reporting rape cases greatly increased from 1950s and 1980s. over presents crime and 60% of space allocated to crime
3. media portrays criminals and victims are older and middle class Felson refers this to age fallacy

disorted media is social construct and s.cohen and young argue it is manufactured by journalist, editors and directors

Question 3

what is agenda setting?

what is news value? + what is 3 e.g of news value?

Answer 3

refers to media influence over issues that people think and talk about
- as media dedicates so much time and space to crime they put crime on the agenda

• however can not report every single crime that happens so they use news values to help them decide which one is worth putting

news value = criteria by which journalist decide which story is newsworthy and which one isn’t
e.g
1. immediacy= live coverage events “breaking news”

2. dramatisation = action and excitement
3. personalisation = human interest stories about indivuals

Question 4

what are fictional media representation of crime

what are 3 ways?

Answer 4

• follow the law of opposite according to surette - opposite to ocs and similar to factual news coverage of crime

1. property crime is underrepresented whilst violent and sexual crime is overrepresented
2. offenders often have high status, middle class values
3. police clear up rate is high so police is represented in positive light

Question 5

how can media cause crime (3)

why do left realist argue media is caused by relative deprivation + criticism

Answer 5

1. imitation = by providing deviant role model resulting in copy cat behaviour e.g bandura research
2. desensitisation = though repeated view of violence so it starts to become normal
3. glamorising offenders.

left realist argue
- media create a sense of relative deprivation - a sense of lacking what other people seem to have among poor and marginalised

• today everyone has access to media and media represents everyone with materialistic goods and this creates relative deprivation amongst people who can not afford this
• this can lead to crime as people cant obtain these goods so they turn to crime.

evaluation: they trust the ocs which show that w.c are criminals and therefore white collar crimes do not appear in ocs because law is selectively reinforced.

Question 6

what is deviancy amplication?

what is moral panic?

what is 6 process of deviancy amplication and moral panic?

how does media create moral panic (3)

evaluation as media of crime (deviancy amplification )

Answer 6

process in which media creates crime through the way label and present certain events and groups in society

moral panic= exaggerated over reaction by society

1. overexaggerates the event as social problem
2. demonise group
   3.enagege in symbolisation
3. creates self fufilling prohepcy
   5.causes deviancy amplication
   6.media overexagerates and this creates moral panic

create moral panic through
1. exaggeration and disortion= exagerate number of people involved

2. prediction = media assume futher conflict would happen
3. symbolisation = symbols the criminals

evaluation = McRobbie suggest that moral panics is outdated notion because they are no longer rare or noteworthy

Question 7

what is cyber crime?

why is policing cyber crime difficult?

Answer 7

defined by Thomas and loader
as computer mediated illegal activities conducted through global electronic networks
includes
- cyber trespass= hacking and sabotaging such as spreaded viruses
- cyber pornography= such as child pornography
- cyber violence= such as online bullying

POLICING CYBER CRIME IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE
because of huge scale of internet and limited police resources. however digital media allows police greater opportunity to carry out surveillance and control over the public

Question 8

How does media cause the commodification of crime?

how does media cause the fear of crime?

Answer 8

cultural criminology theorist media turn crime itself into commodity that people desire the media encourages people to consume crime in form of images of crime.

media cause fear of crime
- exaggerates the risk of certain groups becoming victims such as women and elderly
gerberner et al - found that heavy users of television ( over 4hr per day) had higher levels of fear of crime