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how does the media portrayal of crime compare to the official statistics? |
media gives a distorted image of crime compared to the official statistics |
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what crime does media over represent? |
violent and sexual crime |
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what did Ditton and Duffy find? |
46% of media reports were about violent or sexual crimes, yet these made up only 3% of all crimes recorded by the police |
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how do media portray criminals and victims? |
as older and more middle class felton calls this the age fallacy |
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what does media exaggerate? |
police success |
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what does media exaggerate the risk of? |
risk of victimisation especially to women, white people and higher status individuals |
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what does the media overplay and underplay ? |
overplays extraordinary crimes and underplays ordinary crimes felson calls this the dramatic fallacy |
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what is the ingenuity fallacy? |
the idea you need to be clever in order to commit and solve crime |
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what do sociologists argue the news is? |
socially constructed |
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what did cohen and young say about news? |
news is not discovered but manufactured |
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what are news values? |
criteria by which journalists and editors decide whether a story is newsworthy |
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what are some key news values? |
immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher status, simplification, novelty, risk, violence |
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what did ernest mandel estimate? |
between 1945-84 over 10 billion crime thrillers were sold worldwide |
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what does surette argue? |
‘the law of opposites’ they are the opposite of the official statistics, similar to news coverage |
