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Summary a level sociology media and crime notes
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media and crime notes for a level soicology
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Media and crime● we live in a media saturated society.
Media content and crime
-media is obsessed with crime
-Greer and Reiner; increase in newspaper coverage over recent decades especially tabloids.
-TV news coverage like tabloids
-Key theme in TV dramas
-computer games have a high % of violent/criminal content
Representations of crime
-violent and sexual offences are overrepresented
-property crime is underrepresented despite constituting most crimes reported to police / in victim
surveys
-media exaggerates police success in tackling crime.
Newburn: news coverage can be misleading.
-disproportionately features older and higher status offenders
-exaggerates risk of being a victim of crime, especially if you're white, higher status or female
-presents crime as a series of individual events without examining patterns/underlying causes
However
-increasingly tendency to show police as corrupt and less successful and coverage of misuse of
power
Selection of content
-Jewks: specific news values applying to crime stories
● Celebs
● Unexpectedness
● Simplicity
● Violence
● Proximity (closer to home)
Falson: dramatic fallacy (media overplays extraordinary crimes)
S. Cohen and Young: the news manufactures a picture of the crimes present in a society.
Reiner: 3 trends in crime coverage
1. Accenture's the negatives – bad news drives out the goods.
2. Highlight's victim culture – audiences positioned to identify with victims.
3. Law and order portrayed as the only way to tackle frightening crime waves.
How does media cause crime?
- -hypodermic needle model = media injects ideas into you = passive audience
● copycat violence
● desensitisation = violence and crime are normalised
● drip drip effect = slow, gradual, overtime
● bandura bobo doll = imitation
● Disinhibition = loose internal regulation on what's right and wrong
● Arousal = excitement of crime e.g., risk taking
Greer and Reiner: criminogenic media
-opportunity: encourages consumption which creates mire targets for crime
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