Media and Crime

What did Lea and Young suggest about media and relative deprivation?

Beck: Globalisation creates new insecurities and produces a mentality of risk consciousness.

Van Dijk found negative stereotypes about black people. Which of the following is not one?

What is a key feature of moral panics, according to Goode and Ben-Yehuda?

Which sociological theory explains how media makes people feel resentment and frustration due to inequality?

Which of these is not a way that the media causes crime?

What is the 'bulimic society' concept in relation to media and crime, as suggested by Young? A society where...

What did Jewkes identify as one of the key features of contemporary crime-related news values?

What does McRobbie and Thornton argue about moral panics today?

Which of the following does Greer and Reiner suggest about the media's role in crime?

What does the term 'observational learning' refer to?

According to Castells, how much is the global criminal economy worth each year?

What happens during the 'deviance amplification spiral' in a moral panic?

Which of the following is a key point made by Baudrillard and Gerbner regarding crime in the media?

Ray Surette (2002): Studied prison population of young people, found __ of them had carried out crime similar to media.

What explanation is given for media violence effects, suggesting media can release aggression rather than cause it?

Carried out a study on Mods and Rockers.

What does the term 'moral panic' refer to?

Media emphasis on sexual and violent crime means less importance is attached to serious white-collar crimes.

What is an example of a situation where the media might lead to sensitisation, rather than desensitisation?

Katz and Lazarsfeld 2-step flow model - People listen to views of _____ _____ before accepting/rejecting media messages.

Which of these is a cyber-dependent crime?

What does the concept of 'commodity fetishism' describe?

What is the major flaw in Katz and Lazarsfeld’s study, according to later research?

Features of moral panics were put forward by McRobbie and Thornton.

What did Van Dijk find in his analysis of media representations of black people?

Where news media presents both criminals and victims as older and more middle class than in reality.

How does the culture industry manipulate consumers, according to Adorno?

Gerbner found that people who consume more media are more likely to experience what?

Which of these is not an example of the global criminal economy (Castells)?

What do critics of the two-step flow model argue regarding opinion leaders?

Where the media promotes the idea that to commit and solve crime an individual must be daring and clever.

What is the 'hypodermic syringe model' of media effects?

Who are seen as 'folk devils' in a moral panic?

AO3: Hypodermic syringe - Instead of copycat violence, media violence might lead to ______.

Which of these is not a news value?

Which of these is not one of Wall's 4 types of cyber crime?

According to Cohen, what happens during a moral panic?

What is the role of 'moral entrepreneurs' in the creation of moral panics, according to Cohen?

Disinhibition effect – Media violence convinces children discussion and negotiation can be replaced with violence.

How does the media typically portray women and the elderly in crime stories?

What term describes the direct, unquestioning reception of media messages according to the hypodermic syringe model?

Which of these is not one of Felson's fallacies?

Media increases sense of relative deprivation. It sets a standardised lifestyle image, which is not affordable for all.

People have no understanding of crime, only representations of crime they experience through the mass media.

46% of media reports were on violent/sexual crime, but these only make up 3% of all crimes recorded.

60's - media focused on murder and petty crime. 90's - shift towards drug crime, child abuse and terrorism.

Dramatic fallacy is where the media overplays extraordinary crime and underplays ordinary crime.

In the case of James Bulger’s murder, what did the two young murderers reportedly watch before committing the crime?

How does the two-step flow model differ from the hypodermic syringe model?

Which of the following is NOT one of the news values identified by Cohen and Young?

What did Hall mean by 'interpretative frameworks' in media?

What is the concept of 'symbolic annihilation' as it relates to media representations of ethnicity?

Greer and Reiner said that the media exaggerates the risk of being a victim of crime.

What is a key criticism of Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment?