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Mapa Mental por Ashleigh Gildroy, actualizado hace más de 1 año
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Mass Media & Crime
- Crime and Fiction
- Surette (1998) - The 'law of opposites':
- Crime is distorted in a number of ways
- Media fiction focuses on calculated
murder committed by strangers
- Statistically, most murders are the result of
brawls or domestic violence. Increasing peoples
fear in crime, when it's unlikely
- Statistically, most murders are the result of
brawls or domestic violence. Increasing peoples
fear in crime, when it's unlikely
- Media fiction focuses on calculated
murder committed by strangers
- Offenders tend to be middle class in fiction
and police clear up rates are very high with
the police shown in a positive light
- Cops/ Police are actually seen very negatively and
statistically, working classes commit more crimes
- Cops/ Police are actually seen very negatively and
statistically, working classes commit more crimes
- Crime is distorted in a number of ways
- Surette (1998) - The 'law of opposites':
- Crime and Reality TV
- Reality TV Shows distort the
realities of crime
- Exaggerate and dramatize
the crimes
- Crop the day-to-day activities of the
Police Forces job to make the show
more interesting
- Bias towards the police force. Show them
in a perfect light all the time
- Makes people feel extreme crime is more
frequent than is actually is
- Exaggerate and dramatize
the crimes
- Reality TV Shows distort the
realities of crime
- Crime and News
- Offers distorted view in comparison to true
statistics
- Over represent sexual and violent
crimes
- Duffy found 46% of coverage was of this type of crime,
although official statistics suggest it only accounted for 3%
of recorded crime
- Tends to be age fallacy = The victims
tend to be middle class or elderly
- Over plays extraordinary crimes such
as Madeline McCain
- Preoccupation with sex crimes
- Over represent sexual and violent
crimes
- Offers distorted view in comparison to true
statistics
- News Values
- Crime and the News are a social construction
- Agenda setting = Where journalists and others
involved in news production push a particular topic
that they view as needing to be discussed
- Seen as signal crimes (Crime stories that receive a
massive amount of media attention)
- Such as Jimmy Saville and Madeleine McCain
- Such as Jimmy Saville and Madeleine McCain
- Seen as signal crimes (Crime stories that receive a
massive amount of media attention)
- News Values = Immediacy, drama, human interest, higher status, simplification,
novelty, and violence
- More likely to be reported if they contain these
elements
- The news over exaggerates certain types of crime
- Murder & Sexual Crimes
- Increase fear of crime in individuals
- Middles Class Crimes are rarely reported on the news, thus
getting away with their act
- Murder & Sexual Crimes
- The news over exaggerates certain types of crime
- More likely to be reported if they contain these
elements
- Crime and the News are a social construction
- News Moral Panics & The Media
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