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SOCIOLOGISTS• Reiner • leap young • pearson
• COHEN • Althusser
• Baudrillard • laura mulvey THEORIES TO APPLY...
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Greer and Reiner (2012):
- The media exploits possible stories by over exaggerating Lea {young: media helps to create a sense of deprivation towards disadr.
some crimes out of all prom mm eg. sexual as suit. antaged groups eg. young black boys (er)
REINER (2007): Baudrillard: media constructs reality/hyper-reality/simulacra) bound-
Jewkes (2011): fictional views of crime over-represent ties between real} fake is blurred.(p)
vournalists like to report out of the ordinary violent β sexual crimes
crimes that are newsworthy. Feminism: media representation of women and now it reinforces the
male gaze. eg. camera positions objectifying women.
MANUFACTURED NEWS: Cohen} young. Agenda setting: many issues are based on the list of subjects
the media reports over
• News is the outcome of a social process when rock young: studies of the hippies,ang use and deviant subcultures.
potential stories are selected whilst others are MEDIA REPRESENTATION:
- popular
rejected.
MEDIA AND CRIME • Dominates entertainment mainstream media
- media representation of crime shapes public perspective.
NEWS VALUES: SURRETTE'S LAW: law of opposites.
when Journalist decide if story is newsworthy The media provide knowledge/impressions about crime Based on how media represents crime} what is under
Deviance for most people in society. eg. police, politicians + social workers. represented/left out.
immediacy: Breaking News
Dramatisation: Action + excitement
personalisation: Human interest stories
ppis perceptions of crime are influenced by what media chooses to REPRESENTED: UNDER-REPRESENTED:
Include or leave out in reports
Higher status: celebrities • sex/drug related crimes eg. sexual assuit -corporate crimes eg. tax fraud, environmental pollution.
Media reports may differ In certain forms of media eg. Tiktok, Newspapers} - property crime represented as violent . property crime with no violence
simplification: eliminating shades of grey
BBC News. • catching perpetrators • crimes that happen towards working class/marginalised ppl.
Morally/unexpectedness: New angle
Risk: Victim-centred stories (vunrability I fear) • Risk of women children • patterns/causes of crime ignored.
violence: especially visual/secular aspects • Individual incidents of crime.
Higher levels of media can reinforce stereotypes
consumption lead to impact: media representing of specific ethnic
A03: moral panic era/ FO1R DEVIL:
crime A group (social) posing an imagined or exaggerated
McRobbie et al: moral panic less higher levels of fear groups threat to society
useful In understanding crime today
• outdated in age of New media Increase tear of crime social DreEaVcItiAonNsCtoE deAviManPtLIaFctICaAnTµIOµNn;if
MORAL PANIC
primary deviantact. MORAL EN TREPENEUR:
• Intense composition between media especially to individuals
organisations • ppl, group/organisation with power to create
rules which define deviance (labelling + stereotyping
• much harder to find folk devil who are likely to be victims MORAL PANIC EXAMPLE:
groups)
postmodernist: No value consensus • DRILL MUSIC
to reject against.
JOCK YOUNG (1971)
• myth of 0%!!!?by"d"ri'll".
Study of' Hippies'marijuana use in Notting Hill → Gilroy
* labelling by police lead to hippies be seen as outsiders.
* Retreated into close groups + developed deviant subculture
↳ Developed a deviant subculture
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