CJU1130 Week 2 Unit 2

When people read, hear about, or witness a criminal event via the mass media.

This theory views crime as caused by defective personality development

Coverage of a terrorist act encourages copycats.

Media portraits of economic crimes are common.

Media-generated criminogenic effects are most likely to appear in at-risk individuals predisposed to crime.

White-collar crimes are treated by the mass media as _________.

This theory places the cause of crime in the innate genetic or constitutional nature of criminals.

This theory looks at social groups as the loci of the basic causes of crime.

A typical crime victim is a newsworthy and entertaining one. 

Sets of well-rehearsed, highly associated concepts held in memory, often involving causes, goals, and actions.

How much media-generated crime a society experience is related to how _______ its culture is of crime.

Governments are at a(n) ____ b/c their choice is usually between censorship or allowing terrorists to use the media.

Murder, robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated assault made up ___ percent of all prime-time television crimes.

Thefts account for only __ percent of television crime.

The victimization rates in the media correlate more with fear of crime than with the public’s actual victimization risk.

Media-oriented terrorism is “______ by deed".

Criminals who are animalistic, irrational, innately evil, and who commit violent and senseless crimes is called?

Crime in the media is usually innate, an act of nature gone bad, and society’s fault.

Contemporary media-oriented terrorists are guided by _____ principles.

There is no cause of crime and no difference between the law-abiding and the criminal is called?

Victims are chosen for symbolic meaning to ________ fear and public impact.

_____, revenge, and mental illness are motivations for criminality in the vast majority of crimes shown in the media. 

Political Theories emphasize the political and economic structure of a society as the root cause of crime.

A crime inspired by an earlier, news-media-covered or entertainment-media-portrayed crime.

Due to the Web and the constant recycling of content, media content _____ overemphasize(s) individual acts of violence.

Crime theories fall into _____ groups.

Media can be painted as the dominant cause of crime in society, but their portraits of criminality cannot be ignored.

The initial media-portrayed crime serves as the crime model source for subsequent copycat crimes.

Research does show a link, social aggression is necessarily criminal, nor is most crime violent. 

The terms “transportation,” “engagement,” and “absorption” have been used to describe this type of media interaction.