SOC 3750 Study Guide - Final Guide: Indictable Offence, Domestic Violence, Job Satisfaction
10 Apr 2013
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Mutually beneficial relship, rely on if don"t have experience w cops, can show negative or positive. Low effectiveness rating fear of crime, age (younger), bad neighbourhood, education, income over 60,000$, black, unsatisfactory interaction w police, ppl w high tv watching and police contact. Primary definers law enforcement officials vs secondary definers professors & non-academic researchers. Media heavy reliance on law enforcement officials in formulating primary defns of crime. Consequence of primary defns of crim in news: rarely firsthand account of crime, shaped by dominant ideology. Illuminates how media image of crime is shaped and from whose perspective. Dominant ideology: media capitalist owned journalists use dominant ideology of elite& protect their way of life- scholars disagree. Sex sells crime stories, over emphasize crimes of sexual nature. Risk more risk more coverage, focus b/w strangers, risk of being victim, dangerous locations. Violence most newsworthy, if it bleeds it leads . Police org & news frame stories for public, don"t talk to media.
