CRM 3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Real Image, Media Create, Criminology
1 Apr 2019
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Doyle- how not to think about crime in the media: dramatization of crime and media continue to be of public fascination and anxiety. He argues whether crime and media create an unreasonable fear of crime to the public. Other critics have seen crime in the media as reinforcing shift to more coercive modes of control of the state. There was a study done on 6 media outlets for 30 days and they found that the extensive coverage was of law and order as a means of control and also found sensational accounts of deviance. Reiner the representation of crime in the mass media: crime and cjs has been a long source of popular entertainment, even with. Cctv, a high proportion of the news is about crime and deviance, it constitutes the majority of tv outlets. Broadcasts devote more time to crime, sharpest increase of crime news in the 1960s.
