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The Media and Crime
- Williams and Dickinson
- British newspapers
devote up to 30% of
their news space to
crime
- They give a distorted
image of crime,
criminals and policing
- Ditton and Duffy
- found that 46% of media reports were about
violent or sexual crime, yet only 3% of all
crime recorded by the police
- found that 46% of media reports were about
violent or sexual crime, yet only 3% of all
crime recorded by the police
- The media over represents
violent and sexual crime
- The media portray
criminals and victims
as older than those
found in the criminal
justice system
- Felson
- "the age fallacy"
- "the age fallacy"
- Felson
- Media coverage exaggerated
police success
- Risk of victimisation to white,
high status women
- Media overplay extraordinary
- Felson
- "the dramatic fallacy"
- "the dramatic fallacy"
- Felson
- Media give impresson that to
commit crime, one needs to be
daring and clever
- Felson
- "the ingenuity
fallacy"
- "the ingenuity
fallacy"
- Felson
- British newspapers
devote up to 30% of
their news space to
crime
- Schlesinger and Tumber
- in the 60's the focus was on
murders
- in the 90's murder was less interesting to the media
- in the 90's murder was less interesting to the media
- 1990's introduced
drugs, terrorism,
football hooliganism
and mugging into the
media spotlight
- in the 60's the focus was on
murders
- Soothill and Walby
- newspaper reporting of rape
cases has increased
- the representation of the
offender was that of
psychopathic strangers
- "sex friends"
- however in most cases the
perpetrator and the vitime
knew each other
- "sex friends"
- newspaper reporting of rape
cases has increased
- Stan Cohen
- argues that a story becomes newsworthy
because of new values
- a) Immediacy
- b) Dramatisation
- c) Personalisation
- d) Higher status person and
celebrities
- e) Simplification
- f) Novelty or unexpectedness
- g) Risk
- h) Violence
- argues that a story becomes newsworthy
because of new values
- Factual Representations of Crime
- Mandel
- both fiction and factual
reports of crime
influence our view
- From 1945 to 1984 over 10 billion
crime thrillers sold
- both fiction and factual
reports of crime
influence our view
- Surette
- calls the representaion of
fictional crime and victims - the
laws of opposites
- 1. Property crime is under represented
- 2. Real life homocides
result from sights and
domestic violence
- 3.Fictional crimes are
committed by
psychopaths rather
than friends or family
- 4. Fictional cops always get
their man
- calls the representaion of
fictional crime and victims - the
laws of opposites
- Mandel
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