The Media as a Cause of Crime Flashcards
How is the media a cause of crime?
Copycat crimes
Desensitisation
Passing on ‘tricks of the trade’
Adverts creating feelings of relative deprivation
Glamourising crime
Creating moral panic
How does the media create a sense of relative deprivation?
Through adverts that culturally include everyone including the WC who now want those consumer goods but are economically excluded
How might the media creating a sense of relative deprivation lead to crimes being committed?
Those who are economically excluded will commit utilitarian crime to get what they feel they deserve
What is desensitisation?
Where constant images of violence and crime result in people distancing themselves from it
Why might the media causing desensitisation lead to crime?
People are not affected by crime so they are more likely to carry out crimes themselves
Who were the mods and rockers?
Two youth subcultures identified by clothes, transport and music
How did the media create moral panic associated with the mods and rockers?
Media exaggerated trouble between the two groups at Clacton during Easter 1964 creating a moral panic
How did the media creating moral panic associated with the mods and rockers create deviancy amplification?
More young people becoming mods or rockers
Deviancy amplification - more deviants and more deviance
