Crime and Media Flashcards
1
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Felson
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Age fallacy, Dramatic Fallacy, Ingenuity Fallacy, Class Fallacy, Police Fallacy
2
Q
Schlesinger and Tumber
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1960’s Focus on murders and petty crime.
1990’s Focus on drugs, child abuse, terrorism and mugging
3
Q
Soothill and Walby
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Rape cases went up from 1/4 to 1/3.
Distorted image of rape carried out by serial attacks
3
Q
Factors that needs to be important to be reported on
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Immediacy, Dramatization, Personalisation, High Status, Simplification, Novelty of unexpectedness, Violence, Risk
3
Q
Mandel
A
Fictional Crime representation. Over 10 million crime thrillers sold world wide.
