Crime and Media

• Media representation of crime= news values are

  • Immediacy (reported as it's happening)
  • Dramatisation (over exaggerated)
  • Personalisation (made to feel individual)
  • Higher status (well know people)
  • Simplification (doesn't look an nuance)
  • Risk (poses a threat)
  • Violence (emphasizes gore for attention)
• Media as a cause of crime= media can promote crime (GTA, rap music, Peaky Blinders).

  Schramm et al, found media doesn't have a harmful effect on children in reality
• Moral panics= deviant amplification spiral, media can lead to marginalization, Cohens mods and rockers