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How does the mass media distort image of crime

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Ditton & Duffy
Over represents: violent and sex
Under represents: property

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How much of the Sun Newspaper is taken up by crime news stories

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30%

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How much of media reports are made up of violence or sexual crimes

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46%

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How much of actual crime does violence and sexual crime make up

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3%

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What do Southill and Walby find about rape reporting

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Increasing

Despite drop rape cases

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How many more times likely does Marsh find you are likely to report violent crime than property crime

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36x

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Who does the media exaggerate risk victimisation on

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Young women

Elderly

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What does exaggerating crime cause

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Increased fear in crime

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What does Greer state about the exaggeration of crime

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Media seeks out newsworthy stories 
Exploiting possibilities 
Dramatises, exaggerates, over reports and sensationalises 
Out of proportion 
Generate audiences
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Give an example of Greers belief that media exaggerates

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Crimewatch gives reconstructions giving quite frightening dramatised insights

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How much of TV and films are estimated to be about crime and criminals

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25% of prime time TV

20% of films

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Between the years 1945-84 how many crime thrillers were sold world wide

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Mandel – 10 billion

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What do Gerbner and Schlesinger and Tumber argue about media consumption

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Correlation between media consumption and fear of crime

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Evaluation of correlation

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Does not mean cause

Could be another disposition

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What happens when more individuals stay in

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Stay in watch tv 
Fear crime
Stay in more
Less capable guardians on street
NEW RIGHT: more crime
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Which theory says less capable guardians on the street more crime?

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New right

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What is Sparks evaluation

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Careful assuming audience all respond same way

Active vs passive audiences

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Who argues about active vs passive audiences

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Sparks

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What do feminists think of the media

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Controls women

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Evaluation of media exaggerating victimisation

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  • feminists: controls women

- sparks: active vs passive audiences

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What are the concepts in news vales and social construction the news

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News values
Factors consider
Cohen and Young: news is manufactured

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What are news values

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Values and assumptions held by editors and journalists guide them choosing what is newsworthy and what is reported

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What factors do journalists consider when choosing news values

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  • Proximity - cultural meaning, geographical closeness - british crime better foreign crime
  • Risk - larger better, able misrepresent serious, random, unpredictable believe we are all at risk
  • High status/Celebrities
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Why Cohen and Young argue news is manufactured

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Make decisions what to report using news values like
Dramatic
Unusual

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How does the media cause crime
- copy cat crime - creation of desires - cyber crime - exaggeration and distortion news
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What sort of society is created through creation of desires
Bulimic
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How do New Left Realists argue creation desires cause crime
Increase sense relative deprivation
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What theorist is Bauman
Late modernist
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What dis Bauman say about 2011 riots in relation to creation of desires
Disenfranchised consumers
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What theorist is Croall
Post modernist
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What does post modernist Croall say about creation of desires causing an increase in crime
Girls driven by conspicuous consumption designer goods to steal
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How do Fenwick and Hayword argue crime is packing in creation desires
'Cool' | Associated fashionable cultural symbols (brands)
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How does merton agree with creation of desires
People innovate achieve materialistic goods | Especially when legitimate means blocked
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How does Sewells Triple Quandary Theory support creation of desires
3 risk factors high crime Afro-Caribbean boys 2nd= conspicuous consumption Identity and status dependent material items Seen through MTV and rap culture
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How do Traditional Marxists support creation of desires
Media part ISA creating demand consumer goods necessary capitalist economy
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What does Marxist Gordon say about creation of desires
Ideology capitalism encourages 'culture of envy' media part superstructure reinforces this
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Evaluation creation of desires
- lot crime not motivated by material e.g. Vandalism | - patriarchal control keep women in the home
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Which New Right theorist suggested more people at home less capable guardians on the street
Felson
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How does exaggeration and distortion news lead increase in crime
Moral panics cause deviancy amplification
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Who studied in to moral panics
Stan Cohen
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Moral panics and ______ ________?
Folk devils
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Outline moral panics
- issues public concern - report exaggerated - demonise individuals 'folk devils' - symbolisation: hair, clothes, music - association group becomes visable to public - media invites moral entrepreneurs condemn behaviour - predicts further trouble - pressure authority control issue - increased policing severe punishment - self fulfilling prophecy - deviancy amplification
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How does Hall support S.Cohen and moral panics
``` Moral panic mugging Increase reporting and recording black crime Scapegoated black individuals Labelled 'folk devil' Reality mugging hadnt gone up ```
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What does Halls moral panics differ to Stan Cohens
Hall believes it is a crisis in hegemony | Divert from real issue - capitalism
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What is Halls theory called
Myth of black criminality
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Evaluation moral panics
- McRobbie and Thorton: less useful audiences not homogenous do not all agree what is deviant - Durkheim: positive impact reinforce collective conscience
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How does the media lead to crime through 'copy cat'
Media powerful socialisation agent shape behaviour young people Expose crime and desensitise
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Real life example copy cat crime
Jamie Bulger influenced video games such as Child Play 3
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How does Banduras Bobo Doll study support copy cat crime
Children imitated what they saw doing to Bobo Doll
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Criticisms Banduras experiment
- Hawthorne effect - No one has yet managed replicate - lack validity = lab
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What are the long term effects imitation
Desensitisation | Deinhibition = more tolerant of violence
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How does long term imitation affects cause cultural effects model
Media coverage help create climate support law and order with high levels surveillance Punishment acceptable
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Evaluation copy cat model
Cumberbatch: reviewed 3500 studies found no link Morrison: depends meaning and context Sparks: active vs passive
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Who found a link between watching violence and violent behaviour
Wartella
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What has the increase in crime being according to the Home Office 2015
Crime doubled 5. 1mill incidences online fraud 2. 5mill other cyber crimes
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How much does Detica argue cyber crime costs UK per year
£27billion
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What 4 types of cyber crime foes Jewkes identify
Cyber trespassing Cyber deception Cyber porn/paedophilia Cyber violence
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Give an example of Jewkes 4 types of cyber crime
Trespassing - hacking/viruses Deception - fraud e.g. Tesco 2016 20,000 customer details taken Porn - Violence - stalking/inciting e.g. 9/11 terrorists used public access computers communicate and buy tickets
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How long did the world wide web take to reach 50 million users
3 years
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How many users of the world wide web was there in 2010
1.59billion
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What are the 4 main groups the government found responsible cyber crime
- organised crime networks e.g. Glocal - foreign intelligence and individual espionage - terrorists - hacker groups - anonymous Hacktivism
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How had the internet brought more control
Better opportunities surveillance CCTV, electronic databases, digital finger printing Lead increase crime as can capture more

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