AC1.5 Explain the impact of media representations on the public perception of crime

The impact of media portrayals of crime

A short introductory video

Moral panic

Crime and the Media – Unit 4 Ways in which the media might possibly cause crime and deviance Imitation – copycat behaviour Arousal – through viewing violent or sexual imagery. Desensitisation – through repeated violent or se…

Please read this sociology resource which provides a great overview of issues and covers key terms and theorists.

Smoking as a Moral Panic

Listen to the podcast below to further understand how moral panics are created

www.sociology.org.uk/cc_theories_audio2.htm

SocShortcuts_deviance5_v.pdf

Changing public concerns and attitudes

This article written by Katy Sian, Ian Law, S. Sayyid Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds (March 2012) is fairly lengthy but, have a look - you will see some very good examples that can be used in support of your notes. You need examples of media portrayal in order to get into the top mark band. This can be used in conjunction with Box 3 on page 34 of the textbook.

The Media and Muslims in the UK.pdf

https://www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/tolerace/media/Working%20paper%205/The%20Media%20and%20Muslims%20in%20the%20UK.pdf

Go the BBC page and watch the embedded video

Muslim hate crime 'up 65% in London'Hate crime against Muslims in London has risen by 65% over the last 12 months, Metropolitan Police figures show.

Perceptions of crime trends

BBC Two - Mapping Crime, Crime & public perceptionAn explanation that fear of crime is made worse by over-zealous media reporting.

Stereotyping of criminals

Alan Cicourel

Typifications

Media portrayals of offenders are often where the police get their typifications of offenders from.

This leads labelling theorists to look at how laws are applied and enforced. Their studies show that agencies of social control are more likely to label certain groups of people as deviant or criminal.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

A self-fulfilling prophecy is the sociopsychological phenomenon of someone "predicting" or expecting something, and this "prediction" or expectation coming true simply because the person believes it will and the person's resulting behaviours align to fulfil the belief. This suggests that people's beliefs influence their actions. The principle behind this phenomenon is that people create consequences regarding people or events, based on previous knowledge of the subject.

Levels of response to crime and types of punishment

The 2011 riots

British youths are 'the most unpleasant and violent in the world': Damning verdict of writer as globe reacts to riotsAnthony Daniels (pictured), a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who has worked in some of the hardest-hit areas on the planet, said the British were now in great fear of their own arrogant, knife-wielding children.

Mods and rockers

Changing priorities and emphasis

www.thekennelclub.org.uk/about-us/campaigns/dangerous-dogs-deed-not-breed/

Dangerous dogs - The DDA 1991
Illegal raves

Why did raves become illegal?As police warn about lockdown raves, we look at how raving began and why laws changed to stop them.

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