Media and Crime Flashcards
(5 cards)
What do the news value?
- Immediacy
- Dramatisation
- Personalisation
- High-status
- Simplification
- Novelty or unexpectedness
- Risk
- Violence
What does Cohen and Young say?
News is not discovered by manufactured
What does Surette say?
‘the law of opposites’
fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of official statistics and strikingly similar to news coverage.
What does Felson say?
‘dramatic fallacy’
the media overplay extraordinary crimes and underplay ordinary crime
What does Marsh say?
A violent crime is 36x more likely to be reported than a property crime.