media

Question 1

basic knowledge

Answer 1

society is saturated by media
newspapers devote 40% of their news space to crime

Question 2

Felsons dramatic fallacy

Answer 2

exaggerates police success
exageration of risk of victimisation
overplay exardonary crimes

Question 3

Cohen and young say there is a process of selection whats news worthy;

Answer 3

news is manufactored
immediancy
dramatizisation
personalistaion
high ststus person
simplification

Question 4

The fear of crime has a negative effect of individuals and the fear goes way back to 1920s when media was introduced

Answer 4

1920s cinema
1950s horror films
1980s video nasties
recently rap music and violent video games

Question 5

What are some media causes of crime

Answer 5

immitation(copycat)
transmitting knowledge of tequniques
providing targets
arousal and stimulating desires for goods
glamorising iffending- stockhom syndrome

Question 6

Left relaists belive that …

Answer 6

media portrays what a normal lofe should look like, stimulates relative deprivation within marginalised groups
criminals are romantisised and seen as cool or a style to be consumed

Question 7

Moral panic, folk devils,labelling and self fuffiling prophecy
example; mods and rockers conflict

Answer 7

moral entrepuners create a moral panic and that group becomes folk devils and then this group may want to further deviate which is knkwn as self fuffiling prophecy.
this creates a deviancy amplification spiral

Question 8

AO3 of moral panics

Answer 8

assumes that societal reaction is an over the top one
left relistost say we need to take the fear of crime seriously

Question 9

cyber crime four categories - wall

Answer 9

cyber tresspass
cyber deception
cyber pornografy and violence
policing this is difficult because of sheer scale of the internet
howver there are now more survalliaence cctv, sitital fingerprint ect.