The media and Crime

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A Levels Sociology Flashcards on The media and Crime, created by s0014657 on 03/01/2014.
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Ditton and Duffy found that 46% of media reports were about violent or sexual crime, yet only 3% of crime reported by the police
Felson The age fallacy The dramatic fallacy The ingenuity fallacy
Williams and Dickinson The media overplay the extraordinary
Schlesinger and Tumbler Media attention moved from murder in the 60's to drugs terrorism and mugging in the 90's
Soothill and Walby Reporting of rape has increased and offenders represented as psychopathic strangers
Stan Cohen A story becomes newsworthy because of certain values; 1. immediacy 2. dramatization 3. personalisation 4. higher status person or celebrity 5. simplification 6. novelty or unexpectedness 7. risk 8. violence
Mandel so many crime thrillers are sold yearly that people confuse fiction and non-fiction
Surette fictional crime and non fictional crime "rules of opposites"
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