the media and crime

• hypodermic syringe model of media

  suggests that the audience receives media messages and is directly and passively influenced by them, rather than actively engaging them
• bandura's bobo doll experiment

  those who had watched adults violently attack the doll copied the behaviour

  this means that children exposed to violent images in the media might learn that the behaviour is normal and act it out
• how can the media distort crime ?

  media over-represents violent and sexual crime

  Ditton and Duffy - found that 46% of media reports are on this type of crime but only 3 % was actually recorded crime
• how has the media exaggerated victimisation ?

  media exaggerates the risk of victimisation particularly amongst women, white people and those of status
• how is news manufactured ?

  news is a social construction

  Cohen and Young - says news is not discovered but manipulated

  news values - things that journalists decide are newsworthy
• media and moral panics

  a moral panic is a exaggerated over-reaction by society to a perceived problem

  the group which are targeted are called folk devils
• Cohen - media and moral panics

  argues thar the media coverage of the conflict between the mods and rockers led to a deviancy amplification spiral
• the new media and crime

  the development of new media especially the internet and social media has led to cyber crime

  the new media facilitates : identity theft, cyber-bullying, terrorism and fraud
• evaluation of the media and crime

  some argue that people are sensitised to the media and that if people see the consequences of violent behaviour they are less likely to do it themselves