CRM 312 Lecture Notes - Gabriel Tarde, Copycat Crime, Unit
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There are models and explanations specifically about what effects media images have on us: Fear of crime is impacted by media presentations of crime. Since the beginning of the discipline, criminologists have posted on the influence for a long time, and while this particular branch of social science (cultural criminology) is relatively new, these notions are 19th century products. One of the first researches of media"s impact was done by gabriel tarde (who called himself a. In the 1890 he wrote the penal philosophy (which was translated in 1968) which looked at corrections, and put forth a model of media influence known as direct effects model. This is basically the hypodermic needle model (or syringe model) Spread by the media : suggests what we consider crime waves to be created by the news media. Crime was spread by hearing crime (speaks to humans being vacuous and having little agency)