MEDIA , POSTMODERNISM and GLOBALISATION

Question 1

NEWS values who is it ?

Answer 1

Williamson and Dickinson

Question 2

what are news values ?

Answer 2

media over represents violent and sexual crime by 15x
media exaggerates police success
media exaggerates risk of being victim

cohen and young - news is manufactured
values -dramatisation, risk , simplifcation

Question 3

how does the media cause crime ?

Answer 3

Arousal - seeing violent and sexual behaviour
desensitisation
stimulating desire - for goods

Question 4

what theory can we apply to media ?

Answer 4

Bandura bobo dolls .
36 boy and girl 3-5 some exposed to people attacking and abusing doll - some to people treating it kindly.
the perceived behaviour was replicated by the children. monkey see monkey do.

Question 5

who comes up with relative deprivation causing crime ?

Answer 5

Lea and young

Question 6

what do lea and young say about relative deprivation causing crime ?

Answer 6

media increase relative deprivation -> causes materialistic messages to be sent. causing crime for want for american dream

Question 7

media creates moral panics - how is this ?

Answer 7

media exaggerates amount of violent crime and risk of victimisaiton - by creating moral panics - exagerrated irrational over reaction to perceived problem E.G killer clowns.

Question 8

Moral panics continued :

Answer 8

cohen study on mods and rockers

Question 9

who notes that the internet creates mew crime opportunities ?

Answer 9

jewkes

Question 10

what does global cybercrime cause in crime (wall)

Answer 10

Cyber - trespass, pornotraphy,violence and deception.
A03: surveillance , internet can see more with technology

Question 11

Postmodernism definition of crime

Answer 11

crime is anything that causes any social or physical harm.
“crime” social construction from outdated meta-narrative
harm of reduction : immediate loss
harm of repression : impeding future development

Question 12

postmodernists cause of crime :

Answer 12

every crime is one off event - expressing someone’s chosen identity- due to uncertainty - e.g as a petty thief. crime caused by an assortment of reason

Question 13

A03: causes of crime

Answer 13

does not explain why most people harm others , or why some groups assert identity through harm

Question 14

control of crime - apply to focault for post modernist

Answer 14

contemporary society uses surveillance to control everyone - focault . CCTV as a panopticon

Question 15

globalisation and crime - the global criminal econom