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Media + Crime - representations/distoritions - Coggle Diagram
Media + Crime - representations/distoritions
fictional media
criminals = super villain, stupid, psychopath, rational/planner
victims - females = helpless
males = vigilant
ethnic majority
police = always catch the bad guy, intelligent, bumbling idiot
Factual Media
criminals = under class, ethnic minority, young, men
victims = missing white woman syndrome, selective reporting
police = brutality, corrupt, racist, incompetent
New values
immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher status of story, simplification, novelty unexpectedness, risk, violence
Kid hewitt + osbourne
Media reporting is in need of a spectacle (aka dramatisation) - this means that people can be repelled from what they see but also become fascinated
Postman
media coverage has a mixture of entertainment + sensationalism - e.g. 'infotainment'
Surette
law of opposites - stated that the media opposes official statistics - e.g. media mainly reports on murder ect when in fact the most common crime in the UK = property crime
same can be said for women being portrayed in the media as victims when official statistics mainly say that it is men age 19-24 who are actually victims
Functionalism/pluralism
reporting crime helps create social solidarity
different types of crimes and reported in different types of ways - not all media companies are pushing out stories with the same ideology
crimes reported= tend to be thins that people are the most concerned about and what most people want to see being reported so they create a demand which is then met by the media
Marxism
reporting of crime reflects ideology of the ruling class
ruling class crimes = underreported
media emphasis on sexual/violent crimes which means that white collar crimes/corporate crimes often go unreported
w/c crimes = overreported
reporting crime acts as a form of control over powerlesss groups
femisnism
crime reporting reinforces stereotypes of women and oppression against them
women = portrayed as victims
underreporting violence against women - e.g. domestic violence
highly critical about the reports of sex crimes against women - see them as providing a source of entertainment
Interpretivism
media = social construction
crime = social construction
look at labels attached to people who are determined to be deviant
see media as moral entrapanuer (group/individual) that aims to influence a group into their norms which determines who are deviant + who are not