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Media and Crime - Coggle Diagram
Media and Crime
News Values
News values - The values and assumptions held by editors and journalists which guide them in choosing what is 'newsworthy' - what to report and what to leave out, and how what they choose to report should be presented
Greer and Reiner (2012) - In the media, stories of sexual and violent crimes are stuff that tillitates, excites and captures the popular imagination
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Reiner (2007) - Media coverage of crime and deviance is filtered through the values and assumptions of crime-thriller and film-script writers about what makes a story worth telling or 'newsworthy'
Jewkes (2011) - The news values influence the reporting of crime and deviance - These guide the choices writers, editors and journalists make when they decide what stories are sufficiently newsworthy to report, and what to leave out
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Jewkes argues that the media continue to 'provide homogenised versions of reality that avoid controversy and preserve the status quo - Ignorance among audiences is perpetuated, and the labelling, stereotyping and criminization of certain groups persists
Agenda Setting
Agenda-setting - The power to manage which issues are to be presented for public discussion and debate and which issues are to be kept in the background
The media provide knowledge or impressions about crime and deviance for most people in society, including politicians, the police, social workers and the public at large
People are only able to discuss and form opinions about the crime and deviance they have been informed about, and for most people this information is provided by the traditional mainstream mass media rather than by personal experience or through social media networking sites
This means people's perceptions of crime and deviance in society are influenced by what media personnel choose to include in or leave out of the media
Media representations may therefore influence what people believe about crime and deviance, regrdless of whether or not these are accurate
Media Portrayal of Crime
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Risk - crime is random, unpredictable - anyone could be a victim