CRIME AND MEDIA

• What did Stan Cohens study focus on?

  The social reaction to the mods and rockers ‘disturbances’ in Clacton.
• what does cohens study show?

  how media reaction to what began as small scale scuffles blew the event out of proportion
• what is a moral panic?

  public mass response, based on false or exaggerated perceptions or information that exceeds the actual threat society is facing
• what did the response to the mods and rockers cause?

  police intervening more strongly the 2nd time, meant more arrests and leading to a spiral of increasing public concern
• what is a deviancy amplification spiral?

  term used by interactionist sociologists to refer to the way levels of deviances or crime can be increased by the societal reaction to deviance itself. the deviance is perceived worse than it actually is and the reaction is scaled up
• What was Cohens study called?

  folk devils and moral panics
• What did McRobbie and Thornton say?

  people are less shocked and panics have less impact in late modernity
• What does Jock Young say?

  news is not discovered it is manufactured. This is down to the news values of journalists and editors
• what are the news values of journalists and editors?

  immediacy

  dramatisation

  personalisation

  high-status interest

  simplification

  unexpectedness

  risk

  violence
• Examples of journalistic motives

  sensationalism

  Political motive

  Shock tactics

  Distraction from ruling class ideology
• what does Jewkes say?

  the internet allows conventional crime to be committed with ‘new tools’. new media creates criminal opportunities
• what does Wall say?

  identified 5 types of cyber crime
• what are the 5 types of cyber crime according to Wall?

  cyber violence

  cyber trespass

  cyber pornography

  cyber deception/theft

  global cyber crime
• what % of media uses have been victims of cyber deception?

  39%
• what do Fenwick and Hayward state?

  crime and deviance is packaged and marketed to young people as a romantic, exciting, cool and fashionable symbol
• what is the hyperdermic needle theory?

  implies mass media has direct, immediate and powerful effects on its audience
• what do Lea and Young say?

  The media has disseminated (spread) a standardised image of lifestyle that has accentuated the sense of relative deprivation
• What do Hayward and Young say?

  The media encourages consumption of crime, late modern society is a “mediascape” an ever expanding tangle of fluid digital imaged. Our society is media saturated so crime and reality are difficult to separate
• what is the cultural effects model?

  associated with neo-Marxism. audience can interpret the media they consume and the producers expect the audience to respond in certain ways.

  media is heavily influenced by the dominant and most powerful groups in society

  mass media gradually influences its audience over a period of time
• what was the media’s portrayal of the 2011 London riots?

  Very classist and racist. They were on the police’s side and focused on the young, working class, black boys when it was a range of ages and ethnicities

  David Cameron called them ‘young feral thugs’