Crime and the Media (Globalisation and Crime) Flashcards
How has globalisation impacted on crime?
Give at least two examples.
At least two from:
- Crime does not have to be ‘physical’. The location in which crimes are commited can be anywhere.
- Human trafficking and sexual exploitation has increased.
- Cyber crime has increased.
- The scale of crime is bigger.
- There is an increase in terrorism.
- Increase in corporate crime because of the ability to ‘cover up’ crimes as a result of international relations.
- Increase in identity theft.
Complete the following sentence:
- Crime and deviance makes up a _______ proportion of news coverage.
- Large
In what ways does the media give a distorted view of crime, criminals and policing?
Give at least three examples.
At least three from:
- The media over-represents violent and sexual crime.
- The media portray criminals and victims as older and more middle-class.
- Media coverage exaggerates police success.
- The media exaggerates the risk of victimisation.
- Crime is reported as a series of separate events.
- The media overplay extraordinary crimes.
How might the media cause crime and deviance?
Give at least two examples.
At least two from:
- Imitation (by providing deviant role models, resulting in copycat behaviour).
- Arousal e.g. through viewing violent or sexual imagery.
- Desensitization e.g. through the repeated viewing of violence.
- By transmitting knowledge of criminal techniques.
- By stimulating desires for unaffordable goods through advertising.
- By portraying the police as incompetent and by also glamourizing offending.
Complete the following sentence:
The media ______ the amount of violent and unusual crime, and they exaggerate the ______ of certain groups of people becoming _______, such as young ______ and old people.
- Exaggerate
- Risks
- Victims
- Women
Complete the following sentence:
There is a ________ that the media maybe _____ the publics impression of crime and causing an _______ fear of crime.
- Concern
- Distorting
- Unrealistic
Complete the following sentence:
Research evidence to some extent _________ the view that there is a link between media use and ____ of crime.
- Supports
- Fear
How can the idea that there is a link between media usage and the fear of crime, be evaluated?
- The existence of such correlations doesn’t prove that media viewing causes fear. For example, it may be that those who are already afraid of going out at night watch more TV because they stay in more.
Complete the following sentence:
Relative ________ explains how the media produce or cause crime. By showing people lifestyles they desire but _____ afford, the media create a sense of relative deprivation that causes people to _________ to crime to get the ______ they cannot obtain ________.
- Deprivation
- Cannot
- Resort
- Commodities
- Legitimately
What does cultural criminology argue?
- The media turn crime itself into the commodity that people desire. Rather than simply producing crime in their audiences, the media encourage them to consume crime, in the form of images of crime.
Complete the following sentence:
A feature of late ______ is the emphasis on _________, excitement and immediacy. In this context, crime and its thrills become _______. Corporations and advertisers use media images of crime to sell products, especially in the _______ market.
- Modernity
- Consumption
- Commodified
- Youth
Complete the following sentence:
In the media, property crime is _______, while _______, drugs and sex crimes are ________.
- Underrepresented
- Violence
- Overrepresented
Complete the following sentences:
While real life _____ mainly result from _____ and ____ disputes, fictional ones are a product of ______and calculation. Fictional crimes are committed by psychopathic ______ not acquaintances. Fictional villains tends to be ______ class, white males.
- Homicides
- Brawls
- Domestic
- Greed
- Strangers
- Middle
