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CC 100- (2) The Media

Question 1 of 29

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Influence of the media:

Select one or more of the following:

  • media portrayals of crime include real world crime reporting (newscasts) and fictional stories (CSI shows, movies)

  • by age 18- average child has seen 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV, video games, etc.

  • is bad

  • 1940s passed law making it illegal to produce comics about crime (said to increase psychopathology among young people)

Explanation

Question 2 of 29

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Behaviourism derives from positivism and says an individuals identity was shaped by their responses to the external environment

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 29

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The Hypodermic Syringe Model says:

Select one of the following:

  • Media is a syringe

  • Media "injects" values into the mind of the receiver (person watching)

  • Media positively influences viewers

  • Media negatively influences viewers

Explanation

Question 4 of 29

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Which are true of the Columbine shooting?

Select one or more of the following:

  • happened in 2000

  • the shooting was blamed on lack of gun control and media violence (video games etc.)

  • largest American news story of 1999

  • killed 10 people

Explanation

Question 5 of 29

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According to Stanley Cohen, a moral panic is a condition episode, person or group of people emerges to become designed as a threat to societal values & interests

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 6 of 29

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Cohen identifies 5 key features of moral panics:
1. media takes an ( ordinary, normal, non criminal ) event and presents it as ( abnormal, something bad, extraordinary ) (exaggerations)
2. deviance amplification occurs when ( authorities, police, courts, judges ) demonize these wrong doers
3. they clarify moral boundaries in society, creating ( panic, consensus & concern, problems )
4. they occur during periods of ( rapid, decreased, zero ) social change
5. usually ( old, middle aged, young, different races ) people are targeted as they symbolize the future of society

Explanation

Question 7 of 29

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what is a moral entrepreneur?

Select one of the following:

  • A. person, group, organization that takes lead in identifying behaviours as deviant (in need of legal sanctions)

  • B. tend to be people with wealth, power, political clout & time

  • C. Mass media acts as agents of moral indignation by actively searching for social problems & deviant people to demonize

  • D. All of the above

Explanation

Question 8 of 29

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Goode & Ben-Yehuda listed 5 criteria to distinguish between legitimate problems & moral panics:
1. - "heightened level about a problem" (often fanned by media attention, action groups, legislative initiative)

2. - Increased level toward a targeted group

3. - agreement among members of society that threat posed is real & serious

4. : level of concern is out of proportion to actual seriousness of threat (Exaggerations)

5. sudden appearance and then disappearance of "threat" (no explanation)

Explanation

Question 9 of 29

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What is the grassroots model?

Select one of the following:

  • roots describing moral panics and why they create public concern

  • model saying moral panics begin with no real public concern, media then makes it a concern

  • roots of grass

  • moral panics begin with genuine public concern about a problem, politicians and media become involved in response

Explanation

Question 10 of 29

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The elite-engineered model is:

Select one of the following:

  • small groups of people who disprove moral panics, putting attention on serious social problems

  • powerful groups set out to deliberately create moral panics by diverting public attention away from serious social problems

  • both 1 and 2

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 11 of 29

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the interest group theory is the most widely used approach to moral panics, saying media, politicians, professional groups, religious organizations may act independently and may believe they are acting in best interests of society

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 29

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Burns & Crawford argue that public fear generated by school shootings in years meets definition of , they say for a moral panic you need involvement of , &

: originating from folklore, refers to people or groups presented in media as deviant outsiders and the cause of social problems

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Question 13 of 29

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Active Audiences are:

Select one of the following:

  • people who do not believe in moral panics

  • people who actively consume media

  • people who do not consume media messages passively, rather the meaning of those messages is negotiated or constructed through interaction between producer and consumer

Explanation

Question 14 of 29

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a problem frame:

Select one or more of the following:

  • is a narrative that is easily understood

  • is a problem in media

  • focuses on something extraordinarily bad that affects many people

  • crime news excludes other types

  • calls out for a solution to problem

Explanation

Question 15 of 29

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In terms of Newsworthiness:
1. : is the story significant enough to be of interest to a national
audience?
2. : Vital resources are often committed to pre-planned events
3. : crime story must be reducible to a minimum number of parts or themes
4. :Stories must have a human interest appeal and be easy to relate to
5. : We could all be victims with little attention to crime avoidance
6. sexual violence, "stranger-danger" and female offenders being portrayed as sexual predators
7. or high status person: The media is attracted to all elements of celebrity and crime
8. : Both spatially and culturally
9. : it fulfills the media's desire for drama
10. Spectacle and : particularly for television news
11. : either as victims or offenders
12. and political diversion : protecting the "British way of life"

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Threshold
    True
    Truth
    Predictability
    Probability
    problems
    Simplification
    Simplify
    Simple
    Individuals
    Individualism
    Single
    Risk
    Threat
    Attention
    Sex
    Violent
    Sexual Predators
    Celebrity
    famous
    Politician
    Proximity
    Spread out
    Politics
    Violence
    Sex crimes
    Violent crimes
    graphic imagery
    geographic imagery
    imagery
    Children
    Child
    Adolescents
    Young
    Conservative Ideology
    Ideology
    Conservation

Explanation

Question 16 of 29

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In media portrayals, people of colour (POC) are commonly represented as normal, non- criminals

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 29

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

In terms of violent women offenders, the media employ 8 narratives:

1. ( Sexuality & Sexual Deviance, Physical attractiveness, Bad wives ): women committing very serious offences are rare, especially if reference can be made to their sexuality
Categorized as either: (a) sexually ( promiscuous, probed, problem, experienced ) (vamp) or (b) sexually ( inexperienced, experienced, incompetent ) (virgin)

ex. Aileen Wuronos: "first female serial killer" - claimed each of 7 victims tried to rape her (self-defence)

Explanation

Question 18 of 29

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives:

2. ( Physical Attractiveness, Appearance, Physical Appearance ): women subject to intense scrutiny about appearance

*women are either described in a Lombrosian way (( unattractive, ugly, non appealing ) women) or as ( femme fatals, attractive, physically good looking ) (snare their victims with good looks)

ex. Ken & Barbie (Karla Homolka)

Explanation

Question 19 of 29

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives:

3. : martial status, family background & children have impact on female defendants
-women are considered housewives
-epitome of this is a women who kills

Explanation

Question 20 of 29

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In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives: what is true?

4. Bad Mothers:

Select one or more of the following:

  • small fraction of serious criminals

  • female offenders involved in sexual abuse & killing of children

  • ensures media interest

  • represent large fraction of serious violent crimes of women offenders

Explanation

Question 21 of 29

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives:

5. ( Mythical Monsters, Mythological Maids, Myths, Mythological Ideologies ): media constructions of women offenders derive from pagan mythology, Judeo-Christian theology, classical art & literature (e.g. witches, vampires, Satanists)

-aligned infamous female criminals to these mythical monsters

Explanation

Question 22 of 29

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In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives: what is true of:

6. Mad Cows

Select one or more of the following:

  • Women advised by lawyers to plead guilty

  • 64% females compared to 30% males use psychiatric pleas

  • results in women being labelled 'psychotic' for life

  • women become crazy after committing violent acts

Explanation

Question 23 of 29

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In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives: what does this mean?

7. Evil manipulators

Select one of the following:

  • women who manipulate men

  • male/female partnerships

  • women who commit serious crimes are not always alone, may be the evil manipulator behind a criminal partnership

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 24 of 29

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

In terms of violent women offenders, 8 narratives:

8. : women viewed as either big children or as man

2 crimes in which women avoid label of "evil", but imply the non-agency of women:


Explanation

Question 25 of 29

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The ideal victim comes from a majority status background and is:

Select one of the following:

  • white, weak, female, sick, old, young or combination

  • going about legal activities at time of victimization

  • unrelated to/unacquainted with offender (stranger on stranger crimes)

  • victimized by ethnic minority male

  • all of above

Explanation

Question 26 of 29

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Police are often portrayed as "hyper competent" (heroic crime fighters) but this can exaggerate public expectation for real-life police performances

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 29

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Sousveillance:

Select one or more of the following:

  • recording, by a citizen/witness of an incident to hold bureaucratic organization to account (police may abuse power)

  • unlike surveillance (top-down) where central authority watches those below it, sousveillance is (bottom-up) watching the watchers

  • recording citizens who are doing wrong

  • recording authorities

Explanation

Question 28 of 29

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what is the CSI effect?

Select one of the following:

  • the notion that jury members expect to see high level of forensic evidence to arrive at a guilty verdict

  • the TV show CSI effecting crimes

  • Criminal Scientific evidence Incident

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 29 of 29

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Critical Thinking:

Select one or more of the following:

  • process of evaluating information, claims, or arguments through careful questioning and the application of reason

  • is abstract thinking

  • studies of media emphasize the need for critical thinking in our actions with news and other types of media

  • is a major aspect of criminology

Explanation

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