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1
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What is non fiction coverage?

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news reporting etc. Real life crime described through newspapers, magazines and Tv news reports etc.

2
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Who came up with the dramatic fallacy and the age fallacy?

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Felson

3
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What is the dramatic fallacy?

A

the idea that the media overplay extraordinary crimes

4
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what is the age fallacy?

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the idea that the media tends to focus on older victims

5
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What is the additivity hypothesis?

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The more news values that a story covers, the more likely it is to be reported in the media

6
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who came up the additivity hypothesis?

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Galtung & Ruge

7
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What are news values?

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the criteria by which journalists decide whether a story is newsworthy enough to make it into a newspaper etc.

8
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What are the seven news values that journalists look at?

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immediacy

dramatisation

personalisation

higher status people

novelty or unexpectedness

risk

violence

9
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Who came up with the ‘law of opposites’?

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Surette (1998)

10
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What is the ‘law of opposites’?

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The idea that fictional representations of crime and victims are the opposite to the official statistics but very similar to news coverage

11
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What is fictional representation of crime?

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What we learn about crime through Tv, films, books etc.

12
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What are examples of new media (in relation to crime)?

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revenge porn, identity theft etc.

13
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what is copycat crime?

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when someone listens to music or plays video games etc. that prompts them to commit crime

14
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what is desensitisation?

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when young people see violence as normal and a good problem solving device

15
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what is the disinhibition effect?

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when young people think that normal discussion and negotiation can be replaced with violence

16
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what is the hypodermic syringe model?

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the idea that we are strongly influenced by what we see in the media

17
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what is a moral panic?

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and exaggerated or irrational over-reaction by society to a perceived problem

18
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what is a folk devil?

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a person or group who is a threat t society’s values

19
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what is exaggeration and distortion?

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media exaggerates the numbers involved in a crime and the extent of the violence

20
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who identified four categories of cyber crime?

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Wall (2001)

21
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What are the four categories of cyber crime?

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Cyber trespass

cyber deception and theft

cyber pornography

cyber violence

22
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what is cyber trespassing?

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illegally crossing into someone else’s cyber space

23
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what is cyber deception and theft?

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stealing someones identify through the internet, illegally downloading music and films

24
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what is cyber pornography?

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illegal porn found online

25
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what is cyber violence?

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threatening violence on the internet