Criminology C1

• News Value - How newsworthy a piece of news is and how much attention it will gain
• Personalisation - Whether an article has human interest
• Dramatisation - Ussing drama, violence and fear to gain a readers attention
• Immediacy - Something relevant and present as events unfold
• Unexpectedness - A crime out of the ordinary which attracts readers.
• Simplification - Whether a crime is easy for an audience to understand
• Newsworthy - How worthy something is in being in the news which could be affected by an overexaggeration in wording to make the crime seem worse than it is.
• Ditton and Duffy - 46% of media reports were about violent and sexual crimes, but only made up 3% of police recorded stats
• Newspapers - Focus on violent crimes and do not give an overall cause of crime. Causes a fear of crime
• Television - They broadcast crime news and violent crimes causing people to overestimate the amount of violent crimes
• Film - They sensationalise crime which causes people to want to follow this same pathway.