CRIM 335 Lecture 2: Chapter 2 Notes
18 Apr 2018
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Chapter 2 notes: news media: the members of the mass media transmitting information about current events. New media coverage of crime and cj: complete the exercise (p. 20): make guesses about statistics. You will typically overestimate numbers: opinions about cj system stem from, news media, tv/movies: every crime gets solved. Does the media depict crime accurately? (on the extreme end, yes, but in general it does not): overdramatize: to exaggerate for the news media the frequency and seriousness of violent crime. Ways to do this are through: crime waves: a sudden and often distorted focus of the news media on one or more types of criminal behavior. Can happen even when crime rates are actually dropping. Might also report crimes that don"t happen that often or crimes that didn"t happen at all. Done even when crime rate is falling: ex: eating halloween candy laced with poison, serial killer panic of. 1983-85: overreporting of (violent) crime: most crimes are not violent.
