Crime and the media

Question 1

In which of the following ways are fictional representations of crime opposite to OCS? (2)

Accepted Answer

Property crime is under-represented, Sexual crimes are committed by strangers to the victim

Question 2

Lea and Young argue that the media increase... (1)

Accepted Answer

...relative deprivation amongst marginalized groups.

Question 3

Sociological studies have tended to find that exposure to media violence has... (1)

Accepted Answer

...at most a small negative effect on audiences

Question 4

Which of the following are examples of ways in which the media distort the image of crime?

Accepted Answer

They overplay extraordinary crimes, They exaggerate the risk of victimisation, They over-represent sexual crime, They over-represent violent crime

Question 5

What is meant by the term 'news values'? (answers 1&2 OR 3&4)

Accepted Answer

...newsworthy enough to make it into the news on TV/Paper., The criteria used in order to decide whether a story is...

Question 6

How many categories of cybercrime does Wall identify? (1)

Accepted Answer

4

Question 7

Why is policing cybercrime so difficult? What is the main problem? (1)

Accepted Answer

Because of the scale of it - globalized.

Question 8

How do Thomas and Loader define cybercrime? (one 1 and one 2)

Accepted Answer

2...and are conducted through global electronic networks, 1. Computer-mediated activities that are illegal or illicit

Question 9

What aspects of the media have been criticised in the past for encouraging viole and crime? (3)

Accepted Answer

Computer games eg. GTA, Video Nasties eg. Childs Play, Rap Lyrics

Question 10

Jewkes says that the internet creates new opportunities to commit conventional crimes eg... (1)

Accepted Answer

...Fraud

Question 11

How does the media's portrayal of normal rather than criminal lifestyles encourage crime?

Accepted Answer

Emphasises consumption and excitement., Stimulates a sense of relative deprivation, Stimulates a sense of social exclusion, Presenting images of the materialistic 'good life'

Question 12

Who found that newspapers devote upto 30% of their news space to crime? (1)

Accepted Answer

Williams and Dickinson

Question 13

How might the media cause crime and deviance? (3)

Accepted Answer

Transmitting knowledge of criminal techniques, Stimulating desires for unaffordable goods eg. advertising, Arousal eg. through viewing violent imagary

Question 14

What is meant by the term 'social construction of the news'? The news is... (1)

Accepted Answer

..the outcome of a social process.

Question 15

Which of the following make a story more likely to make the news? (2)

Accepted Answer

Dramatisation, Immediacy

Question 16

He also says it creates new opportunities to commit 'new crimes using new tools' eg... (1)

Accepted Answer

...software piracy

Question 17

The media exaggerate... (2)

Accepted Answer

The amount of violent crime, The risk of certain groups becoming victims of crime

Question 18

When talking about crime in TV, Cine & novels, what does Surette mean by 'law of opposites'?(1)

Accepted Answer

They present a view opposite to that presented by O. Stats.

Question 19

How might the media cause crime and deviance? (3)

Accepted Answer

Glamourising crime, Desensitisation through repeated viewing of violence, Imitation by providing deviant role models

Question 20

Which of the following make a story more likely to make the news?

Accepted Answer

Personalisation, Risk, Higher-status persons, Violence

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