News Values Media imitation - bandura
TOPIC 7
- Cohen and Young news is not discovered but - Bandura did an experiment on young children who
manufactured, news is a social construct were shown lms and cartoons of a self - righting doll
- News does not simply exist out there waiting being attacked with a mallet, they concluded that
to be gathered in violent media could lead to imitation or copycat
Fictional rep of crime - surette - News values are the criteria for journalists violence
- ctional rep of crime follow the law of that decide whether a story is newsworthy
opposites meaning they re opposite to of cial - Deviance is abnormal behaviour and so it
stats makes its way into the news due to the
- Property crime is underrepresented, while extraordinary behaviour Media causing crime
violence and sex and drug crimes are over - Can lead to a crackdown on this behaviour - Media portray glamorous lifestyle ;
represented but may sometimes lead to the self ful lling See that being wealthy is the norm (YouTubers), so
- Fictional sex crimes are caused by prophecy. further in uencing strain theory by Merton increasing
psychopathic strangers, whereas most sex anomie which can lead to diff. Types of crime due to
crimes are committed by acquaintances how ppl react
- Fictional villains are higher status, middle
Fear of crime
aged men, white males.
- - Media exaggeration ;
over rep of violent and sex crime
- Moral panic theory, when media exaggerate the
Exaggerate police success
- deviance of youth subcultures Cohen says that this
Exaggerate risk of victimisation
Media reporting / rep - Overplay extraordinary crimes
attracts more violent ppl to the subculture so violence
- media over - rep violent and sexual crime - becomes reality
Greer and Reiner media in uencing fear of
- Felon age fallacy, most people imagine Violence in the media may desensitise ppl to violence
crime ignores and may have diff meanings
criminals and victims as older and middle for crime
aged than this in CJS
- Media exaggerates police success in clearing Moral panics
cases, because police are major source of
crime stories Media rel. depriv. - media identi es a group as a folk devil or threat to
- Exaggerates risk of victimisation society
- Lea and Young media present everyone with - Cohen argues that moral panic often occurs at times of
- Media overplay extraordinary crime and the image of materialistic good life which is
underplay ordinary crimes social change re ecting anxieties Many people feel
the norm everyone should follow
when accepted values seem to be undermined
- This stimulates sense of relative depriv. And - Argues that moral panic was a result of boundary
- Media provide deviant role play marginalisation felt by groups who cant
- Arousal, view violent or sex imagery crisis, there was an uncertainty about where the law
afford these goods
- between acceptable and unacceptable in a time of
Desensitisation, repeated viewing - As a result commit crime to become
- Knowledge of criminal technique change
materially rich - For a funct. Perspective moral panics can be seen as
- Glamourising offending
ways of responding to the sense of anomie or
normlessness
- Media raises collective consciousness + social control
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TOPIC 7
- Cohen and Young news is not discovered but - Bandura did an experiment on young children who
manufactured, news is a social construct were shown lms and cartoons of a self - righting doll
- News does not simply exist out there waiting being attacked with a mallet, they concluded that
to be gathered in violent media could lead to imitation or copycat
Fictional rep of crime - surette - News values are the criteria for journalists violence
- ctional rep of crime follow the law of that decide whether a story is newsworthy
opposites meaning they re opposite to of cial - Deviance is abnormal behaviour and so it
stats makes its way into the news due to the
- Property crime is underrepresented, while extraordinary behaviour Media causing crime
violence and sex and drug crimes are over - Can lead to a crackdown on this behaviour - Media portray glamorous lifestyle ;
represented but may sometimes lead to the self ful lling See that being wealthy is the norm (YouTubers), so
- Fictional sex crimes are caused by prophecy. further in uencing strain theory by Merton increasing
psychopathic strangers, whereas most sex anomie which can lead to diff. Types of crime due to
crimes are committed by acquaintances how ppl react
- Fictional villains are higher status, middle
Fear of crime
aged men, white males.
- - Media exaggeration ;
over rep of violent and sex crime
- Moral panic theory, when media exaggerate the
Exaggerate police success
- deviance of youth subcultures Cohen says that this
Exaggerate risk of victimisation
Media reporting / rep - Overplay extraordinary crimes
attracts more violent ppl to the subculture so violence
- media over - rep violent and sexual crime - becomes reality
Greer and Reiner media in uencing fear of
- Felon age fallacy, most people imagine Violence in the media may desensitise ppl to violence
crime ignores and may have diff meanings
criminals and victims as older and middle for crime
aged than this in CJS
- Media exaggerates police success in clearing Moral panics
cases, because police are major source of
crime stories Media rel. depriv. - media identi es a group as a folk devil or threat to
- Exaggerates risk of victimisation society
- Lea and Young media present everyone with - Cohen argues that moral panic often occurs at times of
- Media overplay extraordinary crime and the image of materialistic good life which is
underplay ordinary crimes social change re ecting anxieties Many people feel
the norm everyone should follow
when accepted values seem to be undermined
- This stimulates sense of relative depriv. And - Argues that moral panic was a result of boundary
- Media provide deviant role play marginalisation felt by groups who cant
- Arousal, view violent or sex imagery crisis, there was an uncertainty about where the law
afford these goods
- between acceptable and unacceptable in a time of
Desensitisation, repeated viewing - As a result commit crime to become
- Knowledge of criminal technique change
materially rich - For a funct. Perspective moral panics can be seen as
- Glamourising offending
ways of responding to the sense of anomie or
normlessness
- Media raises collective consciousness + social control
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