Media and Crime Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
What do the news value?
A
- Immediacy
- Dramatisation
- Personalisation
- High-status
- Simplification
- Novelty or unexpectedness
- Risk
- Violence
2
Q
What does Cohen and Young say?
A
News is not discovered by manufactured
3
Q
What does Surette say?
A
‘the law of opposites’
fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of official statistics and strikingly similar to news coverage.
4
Q
What does Felson say?
A
‘dramatic fallacy’
the media overplay extraordinary crimes and underplay ordinary crime
5
Q
What does Marsh say?
A
A violent crime is 36x more likely to be reported than a property crime.
