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Crime and the Media - Coggle Diagram
Crime and the Media
The media as a cause of crime
Fear of crime
The media, relative deprivation and crime - Lea and Young
Materialistic goals
Stimulates relative deprivation
How the media can cause crime
Desensitisation
Transmitting knowledge
Arousal
Stimulating desires
Imitation
Glamourising crime
Cultural criminologists
Evaluation
Media representations of crime
News values
Higher-status persons
Simplification
Personalisation
Novelty or unexpectedness
Dramatisation
Risk
Immediacy
Violence
Fictional representations of crime
Property crime underrepresented
Fictional cops usually get their man
'Reality' shows show underclass offenders
Recent tendency to show police as corrupt, brutal and less successful
Victims have become more central
The social construction of the news
Not discovered but manufactured
The outcome of a social process
The media compared to official statistics
Exaggerate police success
Exaggerate the risk of victimisation
Portray criminals and victims as older and more middle class
Reported as a series of separate events
Over-represent violent and sexual crime
Overplay extraordinary crimes
Moral panics
The mods and rockers
Few scuffles on initial weekend in Clacton
Media overreaction
Prediction
Symbolisation
Exaggeration and distortion
In early stages distinctions not clear cut
Deviance amplification spiral
Problem appears to get out of hand
Calls for increased control by police and courts
Leads to further stigmatisation of mods and rockers
Defining two groups and emphasising differences
Encourages polarisation and self fulfilling prophecy
Media definition creates moral panic
More youths adopt these identities
Moral panics are the result of a boundary crisis
Moral panics
Moral entrepreneurs call for a 'crackdown'
Leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy
Media stereotype the group and exaggerate the problem
Creates a deviancy amplification spiral
Folk devil identified
Perspectives on moral panics
Functionalism
Neo-Marxism
Global cybercrime
Jewkes
Policing cybercrime
Thomas and Loader
Surveillance