Media and Crime Midterm Review

Which of the following is NOT one of the four general types of media?

Which of the following best represents the ideal crime victim from a news perspective?

Which film kickstarted the slasher film genre?

What claims that women receive lenient sentences in criminal cases because judges and juries extend gallantry?

What is your own personal, unique online universe of information called?

Which of the following is NOT a stock protagonist seen in psycho films?

______ is one of the most used news values.

According to entertainment media, who is usually responsible for predatory criminality?

Interracial (across racial groups) crime happens more often than intraracial (within racial groups) crime.

The academic study of media effects developed from which of the following sources?

Hegemony posits that the ruling class using the media to win approval through:

Effects research is sometimes called the hypodermic syringe model.

Most people experience crime and justice first-hand, rather than through mediated experiences.

What is the main media that presents the psychopathic killer depictions?

The media is more accurately portrayed as:

Which of the following types of reality constitutes most of our knowledge about the world?

Which of the following is a reason for why media attention to white collar crime has been historically low?

No one seems to be sure exactly when childhood is left behind or when adulthood is achieved.

Josh watches wrestling and MMA fights and is arrested at school for fighting. Which frame best describes his actions?

All of the following are topics used by the media to construct women who commit crimes except:

Children became regarded both as evil monsters capable of committing the most depraved of acts in the:

The media is the most important source in defining crime and justice reality for most of society.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four general sources from which people acquire social knowledge?

Pluralism argues that deregulation of the media led to the creation of:

The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act established ______.

Robin hood would best be categorized within which of the following criminal narrative categories?

Which of the following is a standard narrative used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a psychopath?

Individuals in the media often choose events that:

Which of the following is an example of a memorial criminal justice policy?

______ prioritizes some stories over others.

______ are seen as the number one demons when it comes to children.

Which type of media was the first to be available to every social, economic, and intellectual stratum?

Which of the following is NOT a type of media bias?

What happens when journalists or news organizations allow their own opinions to affect their reporting?