Crime and justice, and media both have a major influence on each other. Contrary to what many people believe, crime has actually decreased within the last two decades. Television, newspapers, and online news articles get the most attention when they cover a story about crime, and this is why crime is perceived as a higher rate than it actually is. Research indicates that the majority of public knowledge about crime and justice is derived from the media (Surette, 1998), even though the reports are usually dramatic and unconfirmed. TV news stations bring about the worst in criminal cases, which leads to the public labeling and stereotyping people, while the police is out sometimes doing criminal actions themselves.
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The media translates deviance into negative labeling and that will create public assumptions. Deviance is defined as differing from the norm or from the expected standards of society and is the product of the reaction it brings about. When a person is labeled a deviant, it creates a stigma that the person begins to internalize. Then the deviant is more likely to keep acting out because if that is what they are going to be called, they might as well act like it. Nobody ever looks at how a so-called deviant was raised or how they were brought up and look at ways to help them. They only use retrospective labeling, which is looking at a person’s past a judging them if they have done wrong before, or use projective labeling which is predicting a person’s future because of their current label. Stereotyping is what a person believes about a certain social group and their expectations about that group. A person’s closest friends, their parents, significant other, and also the media can influence stereotypes either intentional or unintentionally. The expectancies formed from stereotyping influences how someone processes information about a person and also how they behave around a person from a certain social group. For example, the news could be showing a story about drug use and show Caucasian people using and emphasize rehabilitation and recovery, …show more content…
Reporting of proactive police activity creates an image of the police as effective and efficient investigators of crime (Christensen, Schmidt and Henderson, 1982). There are also other times when the media does not make out the police to be the good guys, especially recently. In the past year or so, we have seen too many stories about police killing young and unarmed civilians for what looks like no reason at all. This may be why the general public thinks that crime has gone up instead of down in the past few years, but the real reason why we are seeing more police cases on the news is because there is usually video footage of these shootings taken by an innocent bystander. These police crimes have been happening for years and people have always complained about it but nobody would ever do anything about it because who would believe that a police officer would do something like that. Humans are visual creatures and usually, ‘seeing is believing.’ So when a video surfaces of a violent crime that has happened, words of a reporter or a police officer do not impact a person as much as the video did. Social media is the most popular resource for people to get their news from. When a video gets uploaded to Twitter or Facebook, people immediately see it and begin to talk
Big felonies and violent …show more content…
The media translates deviance into negative labeling and that will create public assumptions. Deviance is defined as differing from the norm or from the expected standards of society and is the product of the reaction it brings about. When a person is labeled a deviant, it creates a stigma that the person begins to internalize. Then the deviant is more likely to keep acting out because if that is what they are going to be called, they might as well act like it. Nobody ever looks at how a so-called deviant was raised or how they were brought up and look at ways to help them. They only use retrospective labeling, which is looking at a person’s past a judging them if they have done wrong before, or use projective labeling which is predicting a person’s future because of their current label. Stereotyping is what a person believes about a certain social group and their expectations about that group. A person’s closest friends, their parents, significant other, and also the media can influence stereotypes either intentional or unintentionally. The expectancies formed from stereotyping influences how someone processes information about a person and also how they behave around a person from a certain social group. For example, the news could be showing a story about drug use and show Caucasian people using and emphasize rehabilitation and recovery, …show more content…
Reporting of proactive police activity creates an image of the police as effective and efficient investigators of crime (Christensen, Schmidt and Henderson, 1982). There are also other times when the media does not make out the police to be the good guys, especially recently. In the past year or so, we have seen too many stories about police killing young and unarmed civilians for what looks like no reason at all. This may be why the general public thinks that crime has gone up instead of down in the past few years, but the real reason why we are seeing more police cases on the news is because there is usually video footage of these shootings taken by an innocent bystander. These police crimes have been happening for years and people have always complained about it but nobody would ever do anything about it because who would believe that a police officer would do something like that. Humans are visual creatures and usually, ‘seeing is believing.’ So when a video surfaces of a violent crime that has happened, words of a reporter or a police officer do not impact a person as much as the video did. Social media is the most popular resource for people to get their news from. When a video gets uploaded to Twitter or Facebook, people immediately see it and begin to talk