crime and the media

• Williams and Dickinson found that British newspapers devote up to 30% of newspaper space to crime
• Ditton and Duffy found that 46% of report's were about violent or sexual crime
• Felson said that dramatic fallacy is when the media overplay extraordinary events and underplay the ordinary
• Surette said how crime is portrayed in media the opposite of reality, 'law of opposites'
• Cohen and Young say that news is manufactured
• Stanley Cohen put forward moral panics
• Left realists Lea and Young argue that the media increase relative deprivation in marginalised groups
• Hayward and Young put forward the commodification of crime where advertisers use images of crime to sell products e.g benefit eyeliner advert
• Thomas and Loader define cyber crime as computer mediated activities that are either illegal or illicit
• Wall argues that there are 4 types of cybercrime

  • Cyber trespassing e.g hacking
  • Cyber violence e.g bullying 
  • Cyber pornography
  • Cyber deception e.g identity theft