Crime and Deviance, Topic 7: Crime and the Media

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Flashcards on Crime and Deviance, Topic 7: Crime and the Media, created by Chloe Adams on 19/06/2017.
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How does the media/news distort the image of crime? Over representation of violent and sexual crime. Media coverage exaggerates police success. Media exaggerate the risk of victimisation. Crime is reported as a series of separate events, with no report of the underlying causes. The media overplays extraordinary crimes. Media portray criminals and victims as older and more middle class.
News values and crime coverage News is a social construction It is the outcome of a process, where some stories are rejected.News values: the criteria by which some stories are deemed worthy. -Immediacy (breaking news) -Dramatisation (action/excitement) -Higher status (celebrities) -Risk (victim centred stories) -Violence
Fictional representations of crime SURETTE: The law of opposites. The fictional representations of crime are opposite to the real statistics. Property crime is under represented, while violence, drugs and sexual crimes are over represented. Crimes are committed by psychopathic strangers, not individuals known to the victim
The media as a cause of crime: Ways the media cause crime and deviance. IMITATION: providing deviant role models DESENSITISATION: through repeated viewing of violence TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE OF CRIMINAL TECHNIQUES STIMULATING DESIRE FOR AFFORDABLE GOODS GLAMOURISING OFFENDING.
The media and fear of crime. Media exaggerate the amount of violent and unusual crime. Exaggerate the risk of victimisation for groups such as the elderly GERBNER: Heavy users of television had a greater fear of crime.
Media and relative deprivation and crime Increases the sense of relative deprivation eg through advertising ^Left Realist view. even the poorest groups have media access - feel they need to conform to the lifestyle the media promotes.
Cultural criminology, the media and crime The media turn crime itself into a commodity people want Encourage them to consume images of crime Media saturated society Blurring between the image and the reality of crime - e.g TV shows that use real police footage. Commodification of crime - eg in rap music the image of criminality is combined with consumerist success.
Moral panics Cohens mods and rockers Two groups, opposing ideals Clashed at Clacton in the 1960s - minor fights However the media exaggerated and distorted it producing a deviance amplification spiral - made it seem the problem was getting out of hand, so there was greater crackdown and then greater marginalisation as a result. The media are crucial in creating a moral panic
Wider context of moral panics - when do they happen. Occur at times of social change, reflecting the anxieties of the public Values seem to have been undermined BOUNDARY CRISIS - uncertainty as to what is acceptable anymore.
Cyber crime New types of media are met with a moral panic Internet has created a moral panic over cyber crime. Global cyber-crime - difficult to police. Cyber-trespass eg hacking Cyber-violence eg stalking or harassment.
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