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Media Representation Of Crime AC1.4 - Coggle Diagram
Media Representation Of Crime
AC1.4
Television.
Examples of Factual Programs:
-Crime Watch,
-Ted Bundy Tapes,
-Panorama,
-Traffic Cops.
Examples of Fictional Programs:
-Line of Duty,
-Sherlock,
-The Fall,
Portrayal of Violence:
-2/3 of US TV programs include homocide, assault or armed robbery, with motives usually being greed, revenge or calculation.
-In comparison to Crime statistics, most homocides are results of domestic abuse or brawls between young men. As well as sexual assaults usually committed by people know to the victim.
Portrayal of Property Crime:
-Often portrayed more serious in comparison to realistic offences. Example being; highly planned, high value thefts with added violence.
Portrayal of Offenders and Victims:
-Offenders portrayed as higher-status, white, middle-class ad males,
-Higher proportion of Victims portrayed as females, however very similar to offenders,
-Victims have become central to the programs and viewers are encouraged to identify with them.
Portrayal of the Police Forces:
-Has a generally high ‘clear-up’ rate of cases in comparison to Official Crime Statistics, however trend towards this not being the case,
-Also portrayed in a positive light, but an increasing tendency for brutal and corrupt officers to be shown.
Film
Around 1/5of all cinema films are crime movie.
Around 1/2 of all cinema films have significant crime content.
Crime in films is often glorified and overly dramatic, these effects heightened with cinematic elements. The use of weapons is unrealistic especially in scenes such as bank robberies, house invasions, thefts, ect.
Music
Crime is glorified in music, such as Drill Rap. Artists (like Eminem, Pop Smoke, Drake) can promote violence, gang related crime, theft murder, ect.
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Gaming
It is theorised that user of violent video games become desensitised to violence and therefore replicated that behaviour in society, even possibly recreating some of those crimes.
Example bieng the Columbine School Shooting, where it is believe that the game ‘Doom’ had a influence.
Sensationalize: To cause events to seem more eccentric and shocking than they are.
Invasive:
Intruding on a person’s thoughts or privacy.
Glamorise:
Making something seem better than it is and therefore more attractive.
Misrepresent:
Describing an idea, opinion or situation falsely.
Glorify:
Describing or representing something as admirable, especially when unjustifiable.
Scaremongering:
Spreading stories that spread public fear.
Embellish:
To add or change details of a story to make it seem more interesting or exciting.
Over-Report:
To say something has happened more than it has.
Newspapers.
Comparison to the Official Crime Statistics.
Perceived Causes:
Focus on the incident and often ignore the cause vs objective overview and background.
Coverage of the Police:
Praised usually, any issues pointed to one ‘bad apple’ vs lots of police issues ie: racism, under-reporting.
Criminal:
Normally Male vs Normally Male.
Type of Crime:
Violence/Sexual/Homocide vs Minor Offences.
5 News Values:
-Immediacy (Breaking News),
-Dramatisation (Action/Excitement),
-Personalisation (Human interest stories about individuals),
-Higher Status Person’s (Celebrities),
-Simplification (Eliminating the ‘shades of grey’ in the story).
How does it differ?
-Often exaggerate amount of violent/sexual crimes,
-2/3 of newspaper articles feature violence,
-1/3 of all newspaper reports feature homocide,
-Over exaggerate age and status of both offenders and victims,
-Police are generally praised,
-Often given very little background.
Crime in newspapers is popular because its is interesting to viewers, ie: keeping them reading, and will attract readers, especially if it is ‘big news’.
1 in 8 news reports were found to be about crime.
Broadsheets:
Papers like ‘The Times’. Often use objective/factual topics (major national/international events) with fluent and formal speech, alongside the use of statistics.
Tabloids:
Papers like ‘The Sun’, who intend to influence. Often use exaggerated emotions, political opinions, celebrity gossip/scandals to interest their target audience.
Social Media.
Performance Crime:
An illegal act that is committed with the intention of being witnessed by an audience or seeking an audience afterwards.
Social media can be used in a positive way to spread overall awareness of crime; just like how Police Forces use Twitter to request information on crimes, or spread awareness of increasing or decreasing trends.