AC1.4: Describe Media Representation of
Crime
Assessment Criterion Mark Band 1 Mark Band 2
You should be able to: Limited description of the media Detailed description of the media
DESCRIBE media representation representation of crime representation of crime,
of crime (1-3) including relevant examples
(4-6)
Amplification: You should have knowledge of specific examples of how different forms of
media are used to portray fictional and factual representations of crime.
Exam Structure:
- 6 marks
- must cover all 6 media types.
- 30 mins
- Make full sentences for notes rather than bullet points
Content:
For each media type:
- Explain how it represent crime
- Give a real life example
Media Type How does it represent Real examples
crime? i.e. in a positive way? (Must have at least two!)
Negative? Glamourise? i.e. a specific film / newspaper
Stereotype? heading / game etc.
Newspaper HEART-WRENCHING
Newspapers can create a SCREAMS Croydon
false picture of crime stabbing: Girl screamed
which promotes ‘is my friend dead?’ after
stereotypes on certain pal was stabbed to death
groups and makes the trying to protect her from
amount of crimes a boy.
occurring much higher
than they really are. A girl was stabbed to
However, it also death, trying to protect
, highlights the ongoing her friend, by a boy who
problem with crime attempted to give her
increasing in areas due to ex-girlfriend flowers.
social issues that people
may not be aware of.
“Britain has done more
Newspapers have than ignore the Uyghur
dedicated sections genocide” - highlights the
related to crime like lack of government
stabbings, shootings, response and action
terrorist attacks and towards the genocide
murder. against Uyghur musilms
in china.
These articles are
published to control the
public, to get more
money by attracting
more people to read the
newspapers.
TV I think Television likes to Dahmer: The Dahmer
dramatise crime and series was highlighting
makes it seem more Dahmer’s life and how his
appealing and worth actions led to him
getting into than it murdering innocent
actually is. While the people. It focused on not
media type never only his past and
explicitly promotes childhood, hinting that
committing crime, it his behaviour was
connects these crimes to influenced based on past
popular actors and shows trauma, but also shows
which allows the how it affected everyone
audience to look up to around him: the family of
said characters and the victims, his own
makes them more likely family, the police and the
to accept the crimes they general public.
committed in the show.
Crime
Assessment Criterion Mark Band 1 Mark Band 2
You should be able to: Limited description of the media Detailed description of the media
DESCRIBE media representation representation of crime representation of crime,
of crime (1-3) including relevant examples
(4-6)
Amplification: You should have knowledge of specific examples of how different forms of
media are used to portray fictional and factual representations of crime.
Exam Structure:
- 6 marks
- must cover all 6 media types.
- 30 mins
- Make full sentences for notes rather than bullet points
Content:
For each media type:
- Explain how it represent crime
- Give a real life example
Media Type How does it represent Real examples
crime? i.e. in a positive way? (Must have at least two!)
Negative? Glamourise? i.e. a specific film / newspaper
Stereotype? heading / game etc.
Newspaper HEART-WRENCHING
Newspapers can create a SCREAMS Croydon
false picture of crime stabbing: Girl screamed
which promotes ‘is my friend dead?’ after
stereotypes on certain pal was stabbed to death
groups and makes the trying to protect her from
amount of crimes a boy.
occurring much higher
than they really are. A girl was stabbed to
However, it also death, trying to protect
, highlights the ongoing her friend, by a boy who
problem with crime attempted to give her
increasing in areas due to ex-girlfriend flowers.
social issues that people
may not be aware of.
“Britain has done more
Newspapers have than ignore the Uyghur
dedicated sections genocide” - highlights the
related to crime like lack of government
stabbings, shootings, response and action
terrorist attacks and towards the genocide
murder. against Uyghur musilms
in china.
These articles are
published to control the
public, to get more
money by attracting
more people to read the
newspapers.
TV I think Television likes to Dahmer: The Dahmer
dramatise crime and series was highlighting
makes it seem more Dahmer’s life and how his
appealing and worth actions led to him
getting into than it murdering innocent
actually is. While the people. It focused on not
media type never only his past and
explicitly promotes childhood, hinting that
committing crime, it his behaviour was
connects these crimes to influenced based on past
popular actors and shows trauma, but also shows
which allows the how it affected everyone
audience to look up to around him: the family of
said characters and the victims, his own
makes them more likely family, the police and the
to accept the crimes they general public.
committed in the show.
