media and crime Flashcards
(26 cards)
what do ditton and duffy say about media and crime?
the media portrays victims to be older and more middle class when they’re usually neither.
what are some ways that the media distort crime coverage?
exaggerate police success - police efficiency fallacy
overrepresent violent/sexual crimes
dramatic fallacy
what is dramatic fallacy and who came up with it?
felson - the media overrepresenting violent and sexual crimes.
what is news values?
criteria that journalists use to decide whether a story is newsworthy.
examples of news values?
immediacy, dramatisation, high status, unexpectedness.
what did the neomarxists glasgow media group find about media and crime?
news can influence how we view issues such as crime and criminal agenda.
what is bulimic society?
young’s idea that we are constantly encouraged to overconsume.
what can increase relative deprivation amongst marginalised groups?
the media
what is the hypodermic syringe model?
some impressionable audiences may imitate violent or antisocial behaviour seen in media.
what is an example of hypodermic syrige model?
murder of jamie bulger, his murderers may have been influeced by child’s play 3.
what does wolf say about the media?
link between media representation of female beauty and eating disorders.
briefly, how can the media cause crime?
imitation, arousal, desensitisation, transmitting knowledge, stimulating desire, glamourising crime.
what does bandura’s study show about aggressive behaviour?
could be learnt through observation. children exposed to aggressive behaviour were much more likely to be aggressive to the doll than children who exposed to nice behaviour.
ao3 of bandura?
doesn’t measure long term effects of media as it was done in lab.
ao3 of media causing crime?
everyone reacts differently to media based on age, social class, intelligence.
violence is probably more based on socialisation, peer group, mental illness.
what does baudrillard say about the media and crime?
media helps people lose a sense of reality which may lead to stalking as reality and virtual world are blurred.
what would post modernists say about the media?
it leads to hyper reality where viewers don’t know what is real or not.
how does media create fear?
overexaggerates violent crime and risks of certain groups being victims eg young women
tumber- tabloid readers expressed greater fear.
ao3 of media creating fear?
if people are just more afraid, they’re more likely to stay at home and end up consuming media, undermining casual link.
what are 3 ways the media may overreact to deviance?
exaggeration/distortion.
prediction of further deviance.
symbolisation - symbols negatively labelled drawing more differences leading to SFP.
ao3 of moral panic?
functionalists argue moral panic is a way of responding to anomie created by social change - media needs to reassert values.
neo-marxists say moral panics serve capitalism.
mcrobbie - it s harder to create moral panic in late modern society due to less consensus on values.
what do thomas and loader say cybercrime is?
computer mediated activities that are illegal/illicit and conducted through electronic networks.
what are wall’s 4 categories of cybercrime?
cyber-tresspass - hacking
cyber-deception - identity theft
cyber-pornography - indecent pictures of children
cyber-violence - text bullying
ao3 of cybercrime?
so difficult to monitor due to globalisation of internet, may be in another country.
allows better surveillance such as cctv, electronic databases.
