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Title: A level sociology, Crime and deviance- Topic 7 (The media and crime)
Description: This easy-to-understand document covers everything you need to know about topic 7 of AQA A2/A level sociology including stats, descriptions, evaluations and key concepts and theorists. I took my exam with AQA however if you are doing the same or similar topics with a different board then these notes are likely to still be both helpful and relevant. I hope these help you too get the best out of your exams just like they did for me.
Description: This easy-to-understand document covers everything you need to know about topic 7 of AQA A2/A level sociology including stats, descriptions, evaluations and key concepts and theorists. I took my exam with AQA however if you are doing the same or similar topics with a different board then these notes are likely to still be both helpful and relevant. I hope these help you too get the best out of your exams just like they did for me.
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Topic 7- Crime and the Media
Media representations of crime:
WILLIAMS AND DICKINSON (1993)
British newspapers devote up to 30% of their news space to crime however the media gives
a distorted image (e
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compared with Official Statistics):
It over-represents violent and sexual crime
Portrays criminals/victims as older + more M/C FELSON (1998) calls this ‘age fallacy’
Exaggerate police successes
Exaggerate risk of victimisation
Report crimes as a series of separate events (don’t examine underlying causes)
Overplay extraordinary crimes FELSON (1998) calls this ‘dramatic fallacy’
News Values and Crime Coverage:
News= social construction COHEN AND YOUNG (1973) - news isn’t discovered it is
‘manufactured’ and is the outcome of social process whereby stories are selected and
rejected
Key concept = News values: the criteria journalists/editors use in order decide whether a
story is newsworthy, if a crime story can be told in terms of these ‘news values’= more likely
to make news
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Property crime is under-represented whilst violent and sex crimes are
over-represented
Fictional sex crime= psychopathic strangers not acquaintances
Three recent trends:
1- ‘Reality’ shows- show non-white ‘underclass’ offender
2- Increasing tendency to show police as corrupt/unsuccessful
3- Victims- more central, police = avengers, audiences invited to identity
with their suffering
The Media as a cause of crime:
SCHRAM ET AL (1961)
States the effects vary among different viewers of the media
Relative deprivation- portrayal of ‘normal lives’ over-represents the M/C, creating relative
deprivation, individuals become more exposed to consumer culture and the pressure to
conform to materialistic goals may drive people to crime
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Correlations have been found between heavy TV (4+hours daily) and tabloid
reading and increased fear of crime, especially violent crime
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Distinctive features of the group are focussed on drawing
attention to them (symbolisation)
2- Increased exposure: people of influence e
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public officials, police chiefs, religious
leaders etc
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COHEN’S study of Mods and Rockers:
Initial confrontations between the two groups started at Easter weekend 1964 at Clacton –
minor property damage caused
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Prediction- media predicted further conflict
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COHEN notes- the media’s definition of situation is crucial in creating a moral panic because
in large-scale, modern societies many have no personal experience so rely on media + moral
panics are the result of a boundary crisis between what is acceptable and unacceptable
behaviour in time of change
Evaluation- COHEN doesn’t explain why the media are able to amplify only some problems
and not all and also why panics come to an end
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JEWKES (2003)
Internet creates opportunities to create conventional crimes (fraud) and ‘new crimes using
new tools’ (software piracy)
WALL (2001)
4 categories:
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Cyber-trespass (hacking)
Cyber-deception (identity theft)
Cyber-pornography
Cyber-violence (cyber-bullying)
Policing- difficult to police due to sheer scale + globalised nature = problems of jurisdiction
Surveillance- ICT provides police/state with opportunities for surveillance/control (CCTC,
electronic databases, digital fingerprinting etc
Title: A level sociology, Crime and deviance- Topic 7 (The media and crime)
Description: This easy-to-understand document covers everything you need to know about topic 7 of AQA A2/A level sociology including stats, descriptions, evaluations and key concepts and theorists. I took my exam with AQA however if you are doing the same or similar topics with a different board then these notes are likely to still be both helpful and relevant. I hope these help you too get the best out of your exams just like they did for me.
Description: This easy-to-understand document covers everything you need to know about topic 7 of AQA A2/A level sociology including stats, descriptions, evaluations and key concepts and theorists. I took my exam with AQA however if you are doing the same or similar topics with a different board then these notes are likely to still be both helpful and relevant. I hope these help you too get the best out of your exams just like they did for me.