CRM 3317 Chapter Notes - Chapter Theorizing Media and Crime: Reductionism, Tvnz 1, Behaviorism
7 Nov 2016
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How not to think about crime and media. Debates on whether or not violence in television and film causes further violent behaviour in viewers. Arguments that the media causes unreasonable fear of crime. Conservative critics blame crime in the media for various social ills and kinds of moral decay. Liberal criminal-justice reformers have used claims about media distortions to discount public punitiveness as they strive for a somewhat more humane justice process. More critical perspectives have seen crime in the media as reinforcing a shift to more coercive modes of control by the state. By early 1970s, police drama had replaced the western as the predominant genre of. Certain types of street crime is shown in both the news and entertainment media. Both news and entertainment media emphasize individualistic accounts of crime and deviance. Crime news tends to rely heavily on the police as news sources due to their routine availability, authority, and control of information.
